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IoT and OT Security Handbook

By : Smita Jain, Vasantha Lakshmi
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IoT and OT Security Handbook

By: Smita Jain, Vasantha Lakshmi

Overview of this book

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, is all about digital transformation, manufacturing, and production. The connected world we live in today, including industries, comes with several cybersecurity challenges that need immediate attention. This book takes you through the basics of IoT and OT architecture and helps you understand and mitigate these security challenges. The book begins with an overview of the challenges faced in managing and securing IoT and OT devices in Industry 4.0. You’ll then get to grips with the Purdue model of reference architecture, which will help you explore common cyber attacks in IoT and OT environments. As you progress, you’ll be introduced to Microsoft Defender for IoT and understand its capabilities in securing IoT and OT environments. Finally, you will discover best practices for achieving continuous monitoring and vulnerability management, as well as threat monitoring and hunting, and find out how to align your business model toward zero trust. By the end of this security book, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to efficiently secure IoT and OT environments using Microsoft Defender for IoT.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1: Understand the Challenges in IoT/OT Security and Common Attacks
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Part 2: How Microsoft Defender for IoT Can Address the Open Challenges in the Connected World We Live in Today
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Part 3: Best Practices to Achieve Continuous Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, Threat Monitoring and Hunting, and to Align the Business Model Toward Zero Trust
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Chapter 9: Vulnerability Management and Threat Monitoring

Risk assessment

Risk assessment provides you with a roadmap that will tell you what to protect and how to protect it. The ever-growing number of IoT or OT devices is increasing the security risks of organizations. Since an OT or IoT environment lacks modern controls such as auto-patching or a strong password (no default password), it becomes imperative that MDIoT should be leveraged, as it can instantly discover unknown vulnerabilities.

This understanding of vulnerabilities can be achieved by generating a risk assessment report. Figure 9.1 shows the Risk assessment section in the MDIoT sensor portal. Click the Generate report tab:

Figure 9.1 – Risk assessment in the sensor portal

When you click on a generated report, you will see the downloaded file, as shown in Figure 9.2:

Figure 9.2 – Downloading the risk assessment report

Let us move on to understanding what this report provides. Figure 9.3 depicts the overall security...