An end-to-end approach to IoT security

Common security mistakes when planning an IoT project

The IoT ecosystem is composed of many standards, vendors using different hardware, software and third-party services and APIs. This huge fragmentation makes the ecosystem very vulnerable to all sorts of attacks, both at the edge and in the cloud.

IoT security issues at the edge

IoT security issues in the cloud

Often companies make important mistakes when planning IoT solutions, for examples:

• Use of hardware and software without built-in security features to prevent root access
• Transmission of not encrypted data
• Lack of tools to perform devices updates (also from remote)
• Hardcoded credentials
• No integrity check of the software and OS installed on edge devices
• API tokens not encrypted
• Not proper authentication and authorization systems

To achieve IoT security, we need to establish solid solutions for device discovery with secure identity, authentication and encrypted communications or the underline protocols are subject to abuse.

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