IoT security is the practice that keeps your IoT systems safe.
IoT security tools protect from threats and breaches, identify and monitor risks and can help fix vulnerabilities.
IoT security ensures the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of your IoT solution.
All the major components of IoT including hardware, software and connectivity will all need to be secure for IoT objects to work effectively.
Without security for IoT, any connected object, from refrigerators to manufacturing bots, can be hacked.
The U.S. Department of Defense has promulgated the Five Pillars of Information Assurance model that includes the protection of confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, and non-repudiation of user data.
It is important to not only secure the endpoints & networks but also the data which is transferred across the network by creating a security paradigm.
To protect IoT devices and platforms, security technologies will be required for both information attacks and physical damaging, to encrypt their communications, and to address new challenges.