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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

Continuous IoT/OT threat monitoring, incident response, and threat intelligence

IoT/OT threat intelligence and behavioral analysis are used to keep an eye out for unusual or unauthorized behavior. By immediately identifying unwanted remote access and rogue or compromised devices, you may improve IoT/OT zero-trust security. You can view traffic history, look up real-time alerts, and scan for risks quickly. You can also identify current dangers such as zero-day malware and survival techniques that static signs of compromise fail to pick up on. For more analysis, look into full-fidelity packet captures (PCAPs).

For a given device profile, normal behavior is determined by establishing communication flows as baselines and understanding the systems it communicates with. With this understanding, policies can be aligned with a zero-trust framework that limits device communications to required systems and nothing else.

Continuous monitoring also helps organizations to be resilient in...