The Cyber Defense eMagazine November Edition for 2023

as absolutely unbelievable how some solutions being expected to get highly professional would cope
with some beginner’s questions. The IoT security’s requirements should get high and as many research
institutions would indicate it’s about the best practice. The fact is the IoT security is about the appropriate
risk management, but the point is if we could do anything more than such best practice could. Right here,
we would point on the possible IoT design that should offer us stronger safety and security through its
usage. The cybersecurity is a wide topic and through this chapter – we could discuss many of its aspects.
At this stage, we would try to concentrate on all the necessary steps that should get taken to offer us
much safer private and business environment.
As it’s already suggested through this material, the IoT solutions could include ICS, SCADA and PLC
systems, embedded devices, mobile technologies and much more. The main question here would be
how we could make all of these advancements being more secured. The majority of a job could get about
the proper set up of those devices being correlated to each other. In other words, we should work hard
on a good hardware, software and network configuration trying to put the risk at the lowest possible level.
Also, it’s important to mention that every single day some of the staffs should maintain such a system
working hard on a better risk management. Many research efforts would deal with some tips and tricks
how it’s possible to set up your environment in order to avoid any sort of unpredictable scenario. Even if
that scenario occurs – we should always try to rely on a disaster recovery plan as well as business
continuity strategy that should support us in resolving some of the practical issues already being
happened in a practice.
Finally, some of the challenges for a future would indicate that it’s not all about the management of the
existing solutions, but rather about development and deployment of new systems that would deal with a
better cyber defense. For instance, many experts would indicate that the IoT of the future should cope
with the stronger encryption and in such a way – offer the better performances to its next generation
devices. Also, it’s well known that IoT systems would use the big network being created using many
devices talking to each other. In other words, it’s so recommended that those devices should get a wellprotected
communication channel as well as deal with the good data cryptography securing the devices
themselves. In conclusion, some of the next generation IoT improvements are about the better device’s
security which could get obtained through the good practices, disaster recovery and business continuity
strategies and much stronger design of the final products relying on more advanced encryption solutions.
The recommendations coming from a practice
Through the practice, we would notice that many IoT solutions would need better software, hardware and
network configuration. Also, we would realize that the majority of those systems would not follow the
basic recommendations suggesting that the inbound ports should get hidden from some of the IoT search
engines. Also, many networks would not use both – software and hardware firewalls or they would take
the minimum of actions in updating their routers, modems or the other network devices.
Also, we would notice some sort of the lack in terms of the good practice in managing the appropriate
authentication. In simple words, people would not try to deal with the strong usernames and passwords
that would make an access to the hackers being much requiring. These are only some of the examples
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