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Practical Internet of Things Security

You're reading from   Practical Internet of Things Security Beat IoT security threats by strengthening your security strategy and posture against IoT vulnerabilities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889639
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brian Russell Brian Russell
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Preface 1. A Brave New World FREE CHAPTER 2. Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures 3. Security Engineering for IoT Development 4. The IoT Security Lifecycle 5. Cryptographic Fundamentals for IoT Security Engineering 6. Identity and Access Management Solutions for the IoT 7. Mitigating IoT Privacy Concerns 8. Setting Up a Compliance Monitoring Program for the IoT 9. Cloud Security for the IoT 10. IoT Incident Response Index

Authorization and access control


Once a device is identified and authenticated, determining what that device can read or write to other devices and services is required. In some cases, being a member of a particular community of interest (COI) is sufficient, however in many instances there are restrictions that must be put in place even upon members of a COI.

OAuth 2.0

To refresh, OAuth 2.0 is a token-based authorization framework specified in IETF RFC 6749, which allows a client to access protected, distributed resources (that is, from different websites and organizations) without having to enter passwords for each. As such, it was created to address the frequently cited, sad state of password hygiene on the Internet. Many implementations of OAuth 2.0 exist, supporting a variety of programming languages to suit. Google, Facebook, and many other large tech companies make extensive use of this protocol.

The IETF ACE Working Group has created working papers that define the application of OAuth...

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