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Learning AWS IoT

By : Agus Kurniawan
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Learning AWS IoT

By: Agus Kurniawan

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things market increased a lot in the past few years and IoT development and its adoption have showed an upward trend. Analysis and predictions say that Enterprise IoT platforms are the future of IoT. AWS IoT is currently leading the market with its wide range of device support SDKs and versatile management console. This book initially introduces you to the IoT platforms, and how it makes our IoT development easy. It then covers the complete AWS IoT Suite and how it can be used to develop secure communication between internet-connected things such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, smart applications, and so on. The book also covers the various modules of AWS: AWS Greengrass, AWS device SDKs, AWS IoT Platform, AWS Button, AWS Management consoles, AWS-related CLI, and API references, all with practical use cases. Near the end, the book supplies security-related best practices to make bi-directional communication more secure. When you've finished this book, you'll be up-and-running with the AWS IoT Suite, and building IoT projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing IoT security


Security is one of the most important aspects in IT. In general, if we discuss security, we can say that all security stuff can be applied to any case. In the context of IoT, we also can enforce common security keys in an IoT environment.

There are a lot of security challenges in IoT. The following is a list of some of them:

  • Secure IoT devices
  • Authorizing and authenticating devices
  • Managing device updates
  • Securing communication
  • Ensuring data privacy and integrity
  • Detecting vulnerabilities and incidents

Some IoT devices have their own security guidelines from their principles to harden their security issues. In this chapter, we focus on IoT security focussing on AWS IoT. Some security challenges will be addressed in this chapter.