Enterprise IoT Security  

Even though the IoT market is nascent, the use of unmanaged and insecure devices in enterprises are growing every day across every industry. As per numerous reports, these unmanaged IoT devices outnumber managed devices on the network by three to one. While there are common devices like smart appliances, HVACs, smart lighting, surveillance cameras in most industries, there are industry specific Operational Technology (OT) devices getting on to the IT network e.g.

IoT Platforms like Microsoft Azure IoT need an IoT IAM strategy for secure, safe and accelerated IoT solutions

A Digital Revolution - Is it Safe and Secure?

A digital revolution is currently underway. Most enterprises have been accelerating the pace of their digital transformation technologies like Cloud, Big Data, AI and Internet of Things (IoT). While the benefits are obvious, the attack surface is increasing dramatically. The consequences of breaches go beyond simple data loss, or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), it is very much a safety issue, with a potentially disastrous impact in the case of critical IoT use cases in Industrial IoT, healthcare/medical devices and automotive.

Technology Innovation: Connected Vehicle

Connected vehicles are becoming common place these days, you can’t buy or lease a new car without some form of connectivity, and the number of connected features and services now offered is astonishing.

One of the differentiating risk factors for an IoT device is that its domain is in the physical world - an attacker may be able to physically interact with your device.

As a collection of engineers at Device Authority, many of us have an interest in hardware modding, and investigating devices for their security vulnerabilities in order to better protect them.

This blog will give a brief overview of IoT hacking, and some links to tools we've found useful.

When producing sample code for documentation, it can be easy to fall into the trap that what is written is "not production" and it can suffer from undergoing less scrutiny than code that is immediately destined for production systems.

It's always worth remembering that developers reading your sample code will likely (perhaps blindly) trust that a given example is the right way to do things.

When you write sample code and technical documentation, you are acting as a teacher to developers you may not even meet or speak to.

We recently came across an article on the 7 challenges of IoT software development – here’s our engineering team’s thoughts and quick responses:

1. Operating System Considerations

While more than 80% of embedded devices are running Linux, there are growing contenders in the marketplace. Windows 10 IoT has a growing following, and strong integration into the Azure ecosystem. Sometimes, a traditional operating system is not always a requirement: JavaME.

With yesterday's announcement about the 6.4 release of KeyScaler comes support for deployment within a Docker container instance.

Requested by a number of clients, the capability to run KeyScaler within this architecture brings significant deployment, cost and infrastructure support benefits to the platform.

The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced last week that it is launching a consultation on how it can regulate industry to better secure IoT devices.