Security Management of an IoT Ecosystem
Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman · The Internet of Things · 2017
The IoT infrastructure in its entirety contains a wide gamut of technologies like cloud, big data, mobile devices, and Internet of Things. Each of these technological components are susceptible to various types of security vulnerabilities and threats, which can render them ineffective. It is very important to ensure that the IoT infrastructure components are adequately safeguarded from various security breaches. The crux of this chapter is the techniques to be adopted for securing the IoT platforms and technologies, which form a part of the IoT ecosystem. The first section of this chapter examines the various security requirements for the IoT infrastructure. From next section onward, we focus on the security threats, which exist in each IoT component. Starting with cloud platform, the threats that exist for each of the underlying platform like big data and mobility are examined in detail. The various ways and means to tackle the security challenges are also discussed elaborately in this chapter. The different types of use cases, which form a part of an IoT ecosystem, are intelligent buildings, intelligent transportation systems, intelligent water systems, intelligent grids, and so on. The security threats for some of these applications and the techniques to safeguard them are also discussed in this chapter. This chapter concludes with a framework, which can be adopted in order to build and maintain a safe and secure IT framework.