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IoT and OT Security Handbook

You're reading from   IoT and OT Security Handbook Assess risks, manage vulnerabilities, and monitor threats with Microsoft Defender for IoT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619803
Length 172 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Smita Jain Smita Jain
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Vasantha Lakshmi Vasantha Lakshmi
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understand the Challenges in IoT/OT Security and Common Attacks
2. Chapter 1: Addressing Cybersecurity in the Age of Industry 4.0 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Delving into Network Segmentation-Based Reference Architecture – the Purdue Model 4. Chapter 3: Common Attacks on IoT/OT Environments 5. Part 2: How Microsoft Defender for IoT Can Address the Open Challenges in the Connected World We Live in Today
6. Chapter 4: What Is Microsoft Defender for IoT? 7. Chapter 5: How Does Microsoft Defender for IoT Fit into Your OT/IoT Environment/Architecture? 8. Chapter 6: How Do the Microsoft Defender for IoT Features Help in Addressing Open Challenges? 9. Part 3: Best Practices to Achieve Continuous Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, Threat Monitoring and Hunting, and to Align the Business Model Toward Zero Trust
10. Chapter 7: Asset Inventory 11. Chapter 8: Continuous Monitoring 12. Chapter 9: Vulnerability Management and Threat Monitoring 13. Chapter 10: Zero Trust Architecture and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Risk assessment

Risk assessment provides you with a roadmap that will tell you what to protect and how to protect it. The ever-growing number of IoT or OT devices is increasing the security risks of organizations. Since an OT or IoT environment lacks modern controls such as auto-patching or a strong password (no default password), it becomes imperative that MDIoT should be leveraged, as it can instantly discover unknown vulnerabilities.

This understanding of vulnerabilities can be achieved by generating a risk assessment report. Figure 9.1 shows the Risk assessment section in the MDIoT sensor portal. Click the Generate report tab:

Figure 9.1 – Risk assessment in the sensor portal

When you click on a generated report, you will see the downloaded file, as shown in Figure 9.2:

Figure 9.2 – Downloading the risk assessment report

Let us move on to understanding what this report provides. Figure 9.3 depicts the overall security...

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