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Practical Internet of Things Security

By : Drew Van Duren, Brian Russell
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Practical Internet of Things Security

By: Drew Van Duren, Brian Russell

Overview of this book

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), businesses will be faced with defending against new types of threats. The business ecosystem now includes cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces, a desire to share information with many stakeholders and a need to take action quickly based on large quantities of collected data. . It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cyber security threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions. . The interconnectivity of people, devices, and companies raises stakes to a new level as computing and action become even more mobile, everything becomes connected to the cloud, and infrastructure is strained to securely manage the billions of devices that will connect us all to the IoT. This book shows you how to implement cyber-security solutions, IoT design best practices and risk mitigation methodologies to address device and infrastructure threats to IoT solutions. This book will take readers on a journey that begins with understanding the IoT and how it can be applied in various industries, goes on to describe the security challenges associated with the IoT, and then provides a set of guidelines to architect and deploy a secure IoT in your Enterprise. The book will showcase how the IoT is implemented in early-adopting industries and describe how lessons can be learned and shared across diverse industries to support a secure IoT.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Practical Internet of Things Security
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Guide to performing an IoT PIA


An IoT PIA is crucial for understanding how IoT devices, within the context of a larger system or system-of-systems, may impact end user privacy. This section will provide you with a reference example of how to perform a PIA for your own deployment, by walking through a hypothetical IoT system PIA. Since consumer privacy is such a sensitive topic, we provide a consumer-level PIA for a connected toy.

Overview

Privacy impact assessments are necessary to provide as complete a risk analysis as possible. Beyond basic safety and security tenets, unmitigated privacy losses can have substantial impacts and result in severe financial or legal consequences to a manufacturer or operator of IT and IoT systems. For example, consider a child's toy fitted with Wi-Fi capabilities, smart phone management, and connectivity to backend system servers. Assume the toy possesses a microphone and speaker, along with voice capture and recognition capabilities. Now consider the security...