Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Group management

Many IoT CSPs allow administrators the ability to create groups of devices. Azure, for example, allows IoT administrators to organize and group devices within their operational domains. In other words, it enables IoT device-level topology management as well as per-device configuration, a prerequisite for establishing group-level management, permissions, and access control.

Azure's group management service is provided through the device group API, while its device management features, software versioning, and provisioning, and so on, are provided through its device registry management API (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/iot-hub-devguide/). Centralized authentication is provided using the existing ...