IOT SECURITY ASSESSMENTS
Your IoT platform is the core infrastructure supporting your customers’ experiences. Its unique design demands an equally unique security assessment approach.
In-Depth Architectural Review of Your IoT Ecosystem
Our IoT security assessments start with an in-depth architectural review to understand the unique objectives and constraints that dictated your IoT device design, including its supporting infrastructure. Our team will thoroughly examine the physical components, software, networking, and management systems of your IoT device to identify any security weaknesses and provide practical remediation recommendations.
Supporting Cloud Environment Exploitation
In the next phase, our Threat & Attack Simulation team combines the cloud security evaluation information with any relevant penetration testing methodologies focusing on exploitable cloud vulnerabilities that will inform your cloud vulnerability management processes. This focus will assess:
- Your cloud environment’s resiliency to attack
- The coverage of your security monitoring
- The efficacy of your detection capabilities
At this stage, our priority is to give you a thorough and transparent view of your cloud environment that supports your IoT ecosystem. By identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities during this process, we can create a detailed picture of your security landscape that allows you to better understand your security posture and areas vulnerable to attack. Additionally, this will help you evaluate how effectively your security monitoring can detect malicious attempts to exploit existing weaknesses in your cloud infrastructure.
IoT Network Security
Although enterprise IT teams typically keep devices protected with conventional network security tools and technologies, they aren’t often as familiar with the security risks that relate to IoT devices. IoT network security is, therefore, a commonly unaddressed challenge that many organizations need assistance with. Conventional security systems aren’t enough to recognize and identify IoT devices or the risks that threaten them.
We will assess your IoT ecosystem services and functions to identify insecure protocols, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities that could be used to impact the device’s operations. Optionally, we’ll dig deeper into your custom network protocols to ensure they use industry best practices to secure your business’ and your customers’ data.
IoT Physical Security
Security challenges that relate to the Internet of Things require innovative and unique solutions, which need to look beyond just the network. It’s vital to also incorporate physical safeguards for the components of IoT devices to ward off direct access by attackers that could compromise your or your customer’s entire network.
Remote-based attacks can translate into physical threats to your organization’s facility and its employees. Our team will thoroughly examine and verify the physical security controls of the device, including both digital and traditional locking mechanisms, anti-tamper features, access monitoring, and more. This comprehensive evaluation ensures a robust defense that keeps internal systems shielded from unauthorized access and potential damage.
IoT Firmware Security
It’s important to invest in IoT firmware security to stay protected against attacks that target potentially vulnerable and network-enabled devices such as your organization’s routers, IP cameras, and smart meters, as well as any IoT devices you manufacture for your customers. IoT firmware security is essential to examine during an IoTsecurity assessment in order to keep your or your customer’s network safe from IoT device attacks.
IoT platforms are commonly resource-constrained; there just isn’t the storage, processing, or power available for the robust endpoint controls needed. Our team will review your platform’s firmware to identify vulnerabilities and provide actionable remediation recommendations with those constraints in mind.
IoT Supporting Infrastructure Security
By connecting your IoT equipment to your cloud platforms, you gain the ability to analyze your data and keep an eye on how your devices are operating. However, this requires that you ensure your IoT and its devices are kept safe from bad actors in order to continuously provide reliable end-to-end services while delivering value to your customers.
Your IoT platform is more than a single device. It’s remotely managed, updated, and administered, and it requires communication back to your internal systems. This provides malicious actors with direct access to your internal network. Defending your device’s supporting infrastructure is critically important, along with thoroughly monitoring all supporting actions. Our team will review these actions to ensure they’re properly secured against an attack.
The Why Behind an IoT Network Security Assessment
IoT devices are ubiquitous, but despite their widespread use, IoT risks are typically poorly understood and are often ignored. We understand that in order to reap the maximum amount of benefits from the IoT devices that you might use to run your business or that are the core of your business, you require the help of experts like ours who can conduct an IoT Security Assessment that identifies vulnerabilities in your devices and remediates them before bad actors can exploit them. With our IoT security assessment, you can mitigate risks, detect and remediate vulnerabilities, boost your defenses to increase confidence in or with your end-users and customers, and prevent breaches from occurring by blocking unwanted access to your or your customer’s IoT ecosystem.
Common Vulnerabilities Uncovered By Our IoT Platform Assessment
Because IoT risks are often misunderstood and omitted, many organizations and their IT systems are unaware of the potential vulnerabilities that an IoT platform assessment can reveal. The most common vulnerabilities that our assessments uncover are weak authentication mechanisms used by your IoT devices, unsecured communication channels between your devices, and unpatched software and firmware. Failing to address these vulnerabilities opens your IoT environment up to the risk of data breaches that can access and steal sensitive data that’s stored on your IoT devices. Additionally, our platform assessment can help you arrive at practical remediations that address your vulnerabilities and better understand the objectives and constraints that your devices’ designs dictate.
IoT Application Security for All Industries
We have a team of IoT security experts that possess deep experience in helping companies from different industries identify weaknesses in their IoT applications and arrive at custom-fit remediations. We often work with companies in industries such as manufacturing, oil and gas, critical infrastructure, healthcare, finance, and information technology. With IoT application security, your application development teams can become better able to identify flaws in their application designs, which are often responsible for IoT application security vulnerabilities.
Additionally, we can rapidly scan your IoT applications’ coding to uncover vulnerabilities using manual and automated security testing approaches. Regardless of the industry you’re operating in, we can help you develop and adhere to a proactive IoT application security approach.
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