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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
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Index

Standards and reference architecture


A practical scheme to standardize and regulate IIoT security practices is in need of much attention. Today, there exists an enormous body of safety and security standards for industrial systems. Many of these standards are vertical-specific, and, even within one industry, there are multiple overlapping standards. Secure coding, for example, has standards from MISRA to DISA, CWE, CERT, and more. Efforts to comply with an overlapping set of standards can be suboptimal. Besides, security standards and regulations often emerge with new technologies, such as machine learning, cloud security, and so on.

As the horizon of our autonomous future gets demystified, standard bodies must leverage the increasing visibility to define comprehensive, overarching security governance standards for the industrial internet. While defining such standards, sufficient care should be exercised to optimize them. Industrial IoT innovations are happening at a rapid pace.

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