Practical Internet of Things Security

Why cross-industry collaboration is vital

We will cover IoT security engineering in the following chapters, but for now we would like to emphasize how cross-discipline security engineering is in the real world. One struggles to find it covered in academic curricula outside of a few university computer science programs, network engineering, or dedicated security programs such as SANS. Most security practitioners have strong computer science and networking skills but are less versed in the physical and safety engineering disciplines covered by core engineering curricula. So, the cyber-physical aspects of the IoT face a safety versus security clash of cultures and conundrums:

• Everyone is responsible for security
• The IoT and CPS expose huge security ...