IoT Insecurity: 6 Common Attacks and How to Protect Customers

… solutions that allow them to evaluate all the data points from the application exploitation to lateral movement, deploying backdoor and exfiltration of data. Some of these events might happen over a span of days if the attacker is trying to evade enterprise defenses; therefore, it’s essential to employ solutions that are able to track the complete kill chain and stop an attack before it can cause significant damage to assets.

Protecting against IoT threats in cloud environments requires that we rethink how security controls are applied and enforced. To protect against known and evolving IoT threats, partners must have contextual visibility that allows them to monitor different segments of a customer network and apply policy at various boundaries as needed to block lateral movements.

Automation can be used to continuously discover new applications running or new devices connecting to the network, and then apply the appropriate static and dynamic security controls.

Using a microservice-based architecture for cloud security supports the flexibility necessary to discover IoT threats and apply security and policy controls in single, multi- or hybrid cloud data centers. Further, it can be helpful to have a tool that can correlate, learn and provide centralized intelligence and policy-based controls through a single user interface. This leads to a consistent approach across multicloud and highly virtualized environments, simplifies the management of security and reduces the burden on already overstretched partner and customer IT teams.

Bottom line, when customers deploy IoT devices, they come with security requirements that are distinct from traditional endpoint and data-center defenses. As a partner, offering a comprehensive security strategy will allow enterprises to reap the rewards of IoT without assuming the compounding risks.

Manuel Nedbal is founder and CTO of ShieldX Networks. Manuel serves as the engineering and architectural lead for the development of the ShieldX platform, and as its overall technical visionary. In his spare time, he leads the engineering organization, trailblazing inventive new approaches to its structure and processes.