Enhancing IoT Security

IoT Security Training that’s tough as a firewall, fun as a hackathon, and smart as your next career move.

(IOT-SEC.AW1) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-639-5
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Enroll in our IoT cyber security course to learn how to design secure IoT systems, protect data privacy, and implement trust models.

In this course, dive into cybersecurity and IoT fundamentals, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures. Then apply encryption, authentication, and access control to real-world scenarios. 

Skills You’ll Get

  • Threat Analysis & Risk Assessment: Identify vulnerabilities and model threats in IoT systems.
  • Secure IoT Design & Development: Build security into IoT devices from design to deployment.
  • Cryptography & Authentication: Implement encryption, access control, and trust models for IoT networks.
  • Privacy Protect Techniques: Safeguard sensitive data and comply with privacy regulations.
  • IoT Security Policies & Protocols: Develop and enforce security measures for IoT deployments. 

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Introduction

2

The Internet of Things and its Security Requirements

  • Internet of Things - A brief introduction
  • Networking in the IoT device - The framework
  • Need to secure IoT - Its limitations
  • Cyber security versus IoT security and cyber-physical systems
  • IoT architecture
  • Authorization and authentication requirement in IoT
  • Security in enabling technologies behind the Internet of Things
  • IoT networking protocols and its security
  • Domain-specific IoT and its security concerns
  • IoT supporting technologies
  • Conclusion
3

IoT Security - Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures

  • Introduction
  • Information Assurance: components
  • Threats
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Risk
  • Insecure Access control
  • Attacks: types, composition, and tools
  • Threat modeling for IoT systems
  • Conclusion
4

Security Engineering for IoT Development

  • Introduction
  • Building Security into design and development
  • The IoT security life cycle: Secure design
  • Conclusion
5

IoT Security Lifecycle

  • Introduction
  • Phase 2: Implementation and Integration
  • Phase 3: Operations and maintenance
  • Phase 4: Dispose
6

IoT as Interconnection of Threats

  • Sybil attack detection in vehicular network
  • Malware Propagation and control in Internet of Things
  • Solution-based analysis of attack vectors on smart home systems
  • Network robustness of the Internet of Things
  • Conclusion
7

Crypto Foundations I

  • Cryptography and its role in securing the IoT
  • Cryptography and its primitives in the IoT
  • Secrecy and secret-key capacity in IoT
  • Encryption and decryption
  • Conclusion
8

Crypto Foundations II

  • Message integrity- Hash functions and their security
  • Message authentication
  • Random number generation
  • Cipher suites
  • Signature algorithm means of IoT node authentication
  • Cryptographic key management
  • Examining cryptographic controls for IoT protocols
  • Transport encryption
  • Conclusion
9

Privacy Preservation for the Internet of Things

  • Privacy preservation
  • Classification of privacy threats in IoT
  • Privacy preservation techniques
  • Futuristic approach of privacy preservation data dissemination
  • Privacy preservation for IoT used in smart buildings- A case study
  • Conclusion
10

Location Privacy Enhancement in the Internet of Vehicles

  • Location privacy and its requirements in IoV
  • Traditional location-privacy preservation solutions
  • A new location-privacy preservation scheme: A MixGroup approach
  • Conclusion
11

Privacy Protection in Key Personal IoT Applications

  • Concept of personal IoT
  • Security aspect of personal IoT
  • Conclusion
12

Trust and Trust Models for the IoT

  • Concept of trust and its role in securing IoT
  • A brief study on Trust Management System
  • Classification of Trust Management Systems in IoT network
  • Challenges in existing trustable IoT techniques
  • Introducing Nova-Genesis as an IoT architecture
  • Conclusion
13

Framework for Privacy and Trust in IoT

  • The concept of user-centric Internet of Things
  • Issues in user-centric Internet of Things
  • SocIoTal- A socially aware citizen-centric Internet of Things
  • Conclusion
14

Preventing Unauthorized Access to Sensor Data and Authentication in IoT

  • The idea of cooperation in IoT
  • The practical implementation of cooperative authentication
  • Bargaining-based dynamic game model for cooperative authentication
  • Analysis of dynamic game model for cooperative authentication
  • Variants of entity authentication
  • Message authentication: content delivery in VANET 
  • Conclusion
15

Computational Security for the IoT and Beyond

  • An introduction to computational models and their security
  • Complex systems
  • Examples of complex systems with their security characteristics
  • Computational tools for complex systems
  • Future scope
  • Conclusion
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Identity and Access Management Solutions for the IoT

  • Introduction to identity and access management for the IoT
  • The identity lifecycle
  • Authentication credentials
  • IoT IAM infrastructure
  • Authorization and access control
  • Conclusion
17

Privacy-Preserving Time Series Data Aggregation for IoT

  • Data aggregation on IoT system
  • Time-series data aggregation privacy preservation scheme
  • Conclusion 
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Path Generation Scheme for Real-Time Green IoT

  • Green Internet of Things: An introduction
  • Real-time GIOT and its issues
  • Real-time query processing in the Green Internet of Things
  • Conclusion
19

Security Protocols for IoT Access Networks and Their Impact on Mobile Networks

  • Existing security features of IoT protocols
  • Futuristic security protocol/algorithm for IoT network
  • Impact of IoT security on mobile networks 
  • Conclusion
20

Cloud Security for the IoT

  • Cloud services and the IoT
  • IoT threats from the perspective of cloud security
  • Exploring cloud service provider IoT offerings
  • Cloud IoT security controls
  • An enterprise IoT cloud security architecture
  • New directions in cloud-enabled IOT computing 
  • Conclusion
21

Policy-Based Approaches for Informed Consent in IoT

  • Informed consent
  • A policy-based solution for informed consent in IoT
  • Conclusion
22

Blockchains for Internet of Things

  • Blockchain technology: The introduction
  • Crypto-currencies
  • Bitcoin P2P network
  • Distributed consensus
  • Smart contracts
  • Blockchain wallets
  • Altcoins
  • Anonymity
  • Conclusion
23

Game Theory Foundation

  • Introduction to Game-Theoretic approach
  • Best response and Nash equilibrium
  • Mixed-strategy or randomized-strategy
  • Repeated games
  • Bayesian games
  • Coalitional games
  • Conclusion
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Security Products

  • Existing IoT security products
  • Testbed on security and privacy of IoTs
  • IoT databases and its security
  • Conclusion

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This IoT security course is ideally suited for: 

  • Engineering students/researchers in computer science, IT, or electronics.
  • IT professionals transitioning to IoT security roles.
  • Developers building secure IoT solutions.

The "best" depends on your goals:

  • For beginners: CertNexus CIoTP (vendor-neutral, covers IoT architecture/security).
  • For security specialists: CertNexus CIoTSP (focused on risk management/threat modeling).
  • For cloud integration: AWS IoT Specialty or Microsoft Azure IoT.
  • For industry recognition: CISSP (includes IoT security domains).

The average salary for an IoT security specialist in the US is around $128,000 annually.

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