IoT Edge Device Security
- Digital Twin: Virtual representation of an entity such as an asset, person, or process developed to support business objectives.
- Edge Analytics: Analytics are executed in distributed devices, servers, or gateways located away from corporate data centers or cloud servers close to where data from “things” is being generated.
- Event Stream Processing: Computing that is performed on event objects for the purpose of stream data integrations or stream analytics.
- IoT Edge Architecture: Represents hardware, software, and communications elements that optimize capabilities such as computation, storage, networking, and analytics to be deployed close to where IoT data is produced or consumed.
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It’s All About the Data
As a result, it is crucial to ensure the authenticity, integrity, and validity of data generated from IoT devices, especially in mission critical and life-altering applications in industries such as medical, industrial, aviation, and military.
Threats to IoT Devices
Exfiltrate Data
Unsecured IoT devices are vulnerable to data exfiltration. This happens when an unauthorized party copies, transfers, or retrieves data from a company’s IoT ecosystem or devices without authorization.
Influence Data
IoT ecosystems and devices are susceptible to third party infiltrations to influence the data. As an example, IoT devices of Nielsen Ratings would be influenced to manipulate ratings for television channels.
Theft of Intellectual Property
Since IoT devices are deployed in the field, and do not have a physical or network perimeter around them, there is potential for intellectual property about how these devices are built, or how they connect to the internet, to be stolen.
Lose Device Control
As an example, an IP based security camera being taken over and used in large botnets.
Devices must be resilient to these attacks and must continue to operate flawlessly both during and after an attack. Ignoring these threats poses significant risks – interruptions to operations, compromised proprietary information, and damage to an organization’s brand and reputation.
IoT and Blockchain Integration
An example of a conceptual architecture for IoT and blockchain integration by Gartner illustrates the separate responsibilities of the IoT network (such as collecting data from things for supply chain optimization) and blockchain (such as collecting supply chain state changes for auditability).
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Make IoT Security a Priority
Who is responsible for securing IoT infrastructures? In their recent book “Fifth Domain,” Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake state that in reality there is no internet czar that is going to put up a wall and restrict hackers. They argue that as a free economy and society, we do not place walls around companies, people or nation-states.
Therefore, any organization that is part of an IoT ecosystem must take full responsibility for security. Assuming that “it is taken care of” and abdicating this responsibility could lead to dire consequences.
Partnering with Experts in IoT Security
Any organization adopting or integrating IoT technologies will face implementation challenges. For many, partnering with companies with the technology and expertise to secure devices and environments makes the most sense because it significantly reduces learning curves, development costs and time to market.
Allegro Software specializes in the development of secure IoT software components, and our proactive approach to IoT security has benefited some of the largest companies in the world. Allegro’s IoT security technologies are constantly being updated and meet all of the latest security and accreditation requirements.
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