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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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Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Smita Jain

Vasantha Lakshmi

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Missing asset inventory for IoT/OT devices

When the assets of organizations are not tracked regularly and the organization does not know whether they are on the factory floor or in the manufacturing unit, this hampers productivity and leads to not-so-desirable business outcomes.

Organizations should place great emphasis on identifying what is in their network and the management of assets, including the current inventory of their business and software assets. The key to an effective cybersecurity strategy is making IT/OT asset management a priority. Most organizations, IT/OT teams, and cybersecurity teams struggle to understand what is in their network (assets), what is present on the device (what type of data it has, access to and from the device, and device criticality), who owns it (owners and users), and where the assets are located geographically and logically.

The following are some examples to put into perspective the havoc a missing asset inventory can create:

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