Security at the edge

With IoT security being a hot topic and frequently making headlines, security in your edge ML solutions must be your top priority. Your leadership at HBS will never want to see their company or product name in the news for a story concerning a hacked device. Ultimately, security is about establishing and maintaining trust with your customer. You can use a threat modeling exercise such as STRIDE to analyze atomic actors in your edge system such as end devices, gateways, and software components to reason about worst-case scenarios and the minimum viable mitigation to prevent them. In this section, we will cover common security threats and the best practices for mitigating them.

End devices to your gateway

Let's start with the terminal segment in our edge ML solution along with the appliance monitoring kit itself and its connection to the hub device. The worst-case scenario for this segment is that an unhealthy appliance is mistakenly reported as healthy...