Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide

© Jason Garbis and Jerry W. Chapman 2021

J. Garbis, J. W. ChapmanZero Trust Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6702-8_16

16. IoT Devices and “Things”

Jason Garbis¹   and Jerry W. Chapman²

(1)

Boston, MA, USA

(2)

Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Throughout this book, much of our focus has been on controlling access by authenticated entities—namely, users and servers. What they both have in common are that they’re authenticated against an identity system, have attributes or roles for context, and are using modern devices with full-featured operating systems that support the installation of third-party software. This makes these systems well suited for integration into the type of Zero Trust architectures that we’ve been discussing. Of course, these are not the ...