Demystifying Internet of Things Security: Successful IoT Device/Edge and Platform Security Deployment

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S. Cheruvu et al.Demystifying Internet of Things Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2896-8_4

4. IoT Software Security Building Blocks

Sunil Cheruvu¹ , Anil Kumar¹, Ned Smith² and David M. Wheeler³

(1)

Chandler, AZ, USA

(2)

Beaverton, OR, USA

(3)

Gilbert, AZ, USA

 

Oleg Selajev from Oracle Labs is famous on Twitter for saying, “The ‘S’ in the IoT stands for security.”¹ Oleg does not spell poorly; instead, he was bemoaning the sad state of affairs in IoT security. Despite the truth in Oleg’s statement, security does not have to be absent in IoT.

Chapter 3 took a comprehensive look at the hardware security offerings in the Intel Architecture. Putting these hardware features to use in an IoT platform requires software. This chapter ...