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Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

By : Sravani Bhattacharjee
Book Image

Practical Industrial Internet of Things Security

By: Sravani Bhattacharjee

Overview of this book

Securing connected industries and autonomous systems is of primary concern to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) community. Unlike cybersecurity, cyber-physical security directly ties to system reliability as well as human and environmental safety. This hands-on guide begins by establishing the foundational concepts of IIoT security with the help of real-world case studies, threat models, and reference architectures. You’ll work with practical tools to design risk-based security controls for industrial use cases and gain practical knowledge of multi-layered defense techniques, including identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, and communication infrastructure. You’ll also understand how to secure IIoT lifecycle processes, standardization, and governance. In the concluding chapters, you’ll explore the design and implementation of resilient connected systems with emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the all the knowledge required to design industry-standard IoT systems confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Disclaimer
Preface
I
I
Index

Endpoint security enabling technologies


Endpoint security needs to span across hardware, firmware, and software, including network and application interfaces. To implement a trusted and resilient ecosystem of IIoT endpoints and subsystems, a variety of technologies come into play, as shown in the following diagram, which stacks the security technologies into hardware, intermediate, enhanced, and intelligent security layers. The main purpose of this classification is to give the reader an idea of the relative role and importance of each of these technologies that are available to protect endpoints:

Figure 4.3: Endpoint protection technologies

Subsequent sections of this chapter will further elaborate on some of these techniques.

Note

This technology stack is not designed to correlate with the levels of assurance presented in IEC 62443 3-3 and NIST SP 800-53r4. The best practices to implement assurance level based security for IIoT endpoints have been treated in IIC's Endpoint Security Best Practices...