IoT compliance
Let's first examine what we mean when we use the term IoT compliance. What we mean by this is that the people, processes, and technologies that make up an integrated and deployed IoT system are compliant with some set of regulations or best practices.
There are many compliance schemes, each with a plethora of requirements. If we were to explore what compliance means for a traditional information technology system, for example, we would see requirements such as the financial Payment Card Industry (PCI)Â Data Security Standard (DSS), an example being PCI DSS 1.4:
"Install personal firewall software on any mobile and/or employee-owned devices that connect to the internet when outside the network (for example, laptops used by employees), and which are also used to access the network."
Even though this requirement is geared toward mobile devices, it is clear that many IoT devices do not have the ability to implement firewall software. How then does an IoT system show compliance, when...
