Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Preface

Only a few people would contest the assertion that the phenomenon of the Internet of Things (IoT) poses problems related to security, safety, and privacy. Given the remarkable industrial and consumer diversity of the IoT, one of the principal challenges and goals we faced when electing to write this book was determining how to identify and distill the core IoT security principles in the most useful, but industry-agnostic, way possible. It was equally important to balance real-world application with background theory, especially given the unfathomable number of current and forthcoming IoT products, systems, and applications. To this end, we included some basic security (and safety) topics that we must adequately, if minimally, cover, ...