Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Naming a device

Every time you access a restricted computing resource, your identity is checked to ensure that you are authorized to access that specific resource. There are many ways that this can occur, but the end result of a successful implementation is that someone who does not have the right credentials is not allowed access. Although the process sounds simple, there are a number of difficult challenges that must be overcome when discussing identity and access management for the numerous constrained devices that comprise the IoT.

One of the first challenges is related to identity itself. Although identity may seem straightforward to you—your name, for example—that identity must be translated into a piece of information that the computing ...