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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

Summary

In conclusion, we learned about the ZTA narrative with respect to the IoT/OT industry. We also looked into connecting the OT or IoT environment to further monitoring through a Microsoft SIEM solution – that is, Microsoft Sentinel. While we learned about the application and features of MDIoT with regard to OT and IoT in earlier chapters, we touched upon enterprise IoT in this one. A corporate environment consists of many IoT devices requiring visibility and monitoring, which we can cover with enterprise IoT.

We then moved on to learn more about MDIoT and how it helps in addressing the challenges of cybersecurity in Industry 4.0. We delved deeper into understanding the core features of MDIoT, such as asset inventory, continuous monitoring and vulnerability management, and threat monitoring. Finally, we completed by aligning IoT/OT security with ZTA and NIST and connecting MDIoT with a SIEM solution for better insights, visibility, and risk mitigation. Throughout this...