Leverage Defender for IoT for understanding common attacks and achieving zero trust for IoT and OT devices

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Key Features:

• Identify and resolve cybersecurity challenges in the IoT and OT worlds
• Familiarize yourself with common attack vectors in the IoT and OT domains
• Dive into Defender for IoT, understand its capabilities, and put it to practice

Book Description:

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, is all about digital transformation, manufacturing, and production. The connected world we live in today, including industries, comes with several cybersecurity challenges that need immediate attention. This book takes you through the basics of IoT and OT architecture and helps you understand and mitigate these security challenges.

The book begins with an overview of the challenges faced in managing and securing IoT and OT devices in Industry 4.0. Youll then get to grips with the Purdue model of reference architecture, which will help you explore common cyber attacks in IoT and OT environments. As you progress, youll be introduced to Microsoft Defender for IoT and understand its capabilities in securing IoT and OT environments. Finally, you will discover best practices for achieving continuous monitoring and vulnerability management, as well as threat monitoring and hunting, and find out how to align your business model toward zero trust.

By the end of this security book, youll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to efficiently secure IoT and OT environments using Microsoft Defender for IoT.

What You Will Learn:

• Discover security challenges faced in IoT and OT environments
• Understand the security issues in Industry 4.0
• Explore Microsoft Defender for IoT and learn how it aids in securing the IoT/OT industry
• Find out how to deploy Microsoft Defender for IoT along with its prerequisites
• Understand the importance of continuous monitoring
• Get familiarized with vulnerability management in the IoT and OT worlds
• Dive into risk assessment as well as threat monitoring and hunting
• Achieve zero trust for IoT devices

Who this book is for:

This book is for industrial security, IoT security, and IT security professionals. Security engineers, including pentesters, security architects, and ethical hackers, who want to ensure the security of their organizations data when connected with the IoT will find this book useful.