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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

Diverse ways of traffic mirroring for OT monitoring

Network sensors, which are a significant part of the MDIoT architecture, receive data or traffic from the following:

  • SPAN ports
  • The network terminal access point (TAP)

In Figure 5.4, we can see that the OT devices send traffic for analysis through the managed switch with port mirroring:

Figure 5.4 – Example of the network used in an OT environment

We will now learn about different methods used for traffic mirroring in an OT environment to enable monitoring with MDIoT.

To focus on specific and relevant network traffic for traffic analysis, you need to connect MDIoT to a network mirroring port on a switch or a TAP that only covers industrial ICS and SCADA traffic.

SPAN

Port mirroring, commonly known as Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), is a method of monitoring network traffic. When port mirroring is enabled, the switch sends a copy of all the network packets visible on a single...