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Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

By : Brian Russell, Drew Van Duren
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

By: Brian Russell, Drew Van Duren

Overview of this book

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), businesses have to defend against new types of threat. The business ecosystem now includes the cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces. It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cybersecurity threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions. This book shows you how to implement cybersecurity solutions, IoT design best practices, and risk mitigation methodologies to address device and infrastructure threats to IoT solutions. In this second edition, you will go through some typical and unique vulnerabilities seen within various layers of the IoT technology stack and also learn new ways in which IT and physical threats interact. You will then explore the different engineering approaches a developer/manufacturer might take to securely design and deploy IoT devices. Furthermore, you will securely develop your own custom additions for an enterprise IoT implementation. You will also be provided with actionable guidance through setting up a cryptographic infrastructure for your IoT implementations. You will then be guided on the selection and configuration of Identity and Access Management solutions for an IoT implementation. In conclusion, you will explore cloud security architectures and security best practices for operating and managing cross-organizational, multi-domain IoT deployments.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Defining, planning, and executing an IoT incident response


IoT incident response and management can be broken down into four phases:

  • Planning
  • Detection and analysis
  • Containment, eradication, and recovery
  • Post-incident activity

 

 

 

The following diagram provides a view into the processes and how they relate to one another:

Any organization should have, at a minimum, these processes well documented and tailored for its unique system(s), technologies, and deployment approaches.

Incident response planning

Planning (sometimes called incident response preparation) is composed of those activities that are, figuratively speaking, designed to keep you from behaving like a deer in headlights when disaster strikes. If your company were to experience a massive denial of service attack that your hosting provider's load balancers and gateway couldn't keep up with, do you know what would happen, and how you would respond ? Does your cloud provider handle this automatically, or are you expected to intervene by escalating...