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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

IoT compliance


Let's first examine what we mean when we use the term IoT compliance. What we mean by this is that the people, processes, and technologies that make up an integrated and deployed IoT system are compliant with some set of regulations or best practices.

There are many compliance schemes, each with a plethora of requirements. If we were to explore what compliance means for a traditional information technology system, for example, we would see requirements such as the financial Payment Card Industry (PCIData Security Standard (DSS), an example being PCI DSS 1.4:

"Install personal firewall software on any mobile and/or employee-owned devices that connect to the internet when outside the network (for example, laptops used by employees), and which are also used to access the network."

Even though this requirement is geared toward mobile devices, it is clear that many IoT devices do not have the ability to implement firewall software. How then does an IoT system show compliance, when...