Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Step 4 – identify threats

Within the IoT, there is a clear blending of the physical and electronic worlds. This results in relatively simplistic physical attacks that can be used to thwart a system's functionality. As an example, did the designers of the system include any integrity protections on the position of the cameras that provide data for parking enforcement correlation?

The amount of human involvement in the system also plays a significant factor in the types of attacks that could be used against a system. For example, if human parking enforcement officers aren't involved (that is, the system automatically issues citations for staying over the time limit), then the ability of the system that reads the license plates would have to ...