White papers - Security and privacy by design for IoT Applications

To ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability in IoT systems, a number of security aspects need to be considered, in order to achieve security and privacy by design. In a series of white papers we give you an overview.

With IoT forecast to connect billions of everyday home, office or industrial devices, it is hard not to imagine how vast the potential damage could be if a weak security platform (or application) is used for controlling devices and handling exchange of data between them. While IoT promises to improve productivity and help people to do their jobs better and faster, cyber-attacks can potentially wipe out any productivity gains, and, in an extreme case, they can cause unthinkable damage.

Having a secure platform and environment for IoT devices to operate is important, in order to ensure safety of users and prevent unwanted consequences that might occur as a result of a security loophole. In this sense, organizations delivering and using IoT systems must be diligent in their defense of device data and security aspects must be considered and implemented in their early design phase, not as an afterthought.

Sirris has built up extensive experience and knowhow in IoT security and will publish a series of white papers in which all the issues will be discussed in detail.