OT/IoT security solutions
Operational Technology like IoT, SCADA and industrial control systems are increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks as they become more connected.
Introduction
Security in IoT is the act of securing Internet devices and the networks they’re connected to from threats and breaches by protecting, identifying, and monitoring risks all while helping fix vulnerabilities from a range of devices that can pose security risks to your business.
What are the Biggest Challenges with Operation Technology and Internet of Things Security?
Along with understanding “what is OT/IoT security,” it’s important to note the biggest challenges facing OT/IoT security. OT/IoT devices were not built with security in mind, leading to potential vulnerabilities in a multiple device system. In the majority of cases, there is no way to install security software on the device itself. In addition, they sometimes ship with malware on them, which then infects the network they are connected to.
Some network security doesn’t have the ability to detect OT/IoT devices connected to it and/or the visibility to know what devices are communicating through the network.
How SR Cloud Solutions Can Help?
The number of IoT devices being deployed into networks is growing at a phenomenal rate, up to 1 million connected devices each day. While IoT solutions are enabling new and exciting ways to improve efficiency, flexibility, and productivity, they also bring a new risk to the network. Frequently designed without security, IoT devices have become a new threat vector for bad actors to use when launching attacks. We have already seen several attacks leveraging these distributed, seemingly innocent devices.
To provide protection in the age of IoT, network operators need to have the tools and skills to:
- See and profile every device on the network, to understand what IoT devices are being deployed
- Control access to the network, both connecting to the network and determining where devices can access
- Monitor the devices on the network to ensure that they are not compromised and to take automatic and immediate action if they are
Through our market leading technology partners, we can provide these capabilities through our Network Access Control (NAC) products, Managed Detection & Response (MDR), and Zero Trust Network Access Solutions. These solutions can help deliver the visibility, control, and automated response needed to provide security in a world of IoT devices.
Thinking of migrating an existing IoT solution or creating a new IoT project?
Then we highly recommend Azure IoT products with class leading IoT security solutions that provide the scalability, management, security, and compliance to meet your individual business needs.
Why choose SR Cloud Solutions?
SR Cloud Solutions has a 25-year track record of supplying managed security services to many organisations in different industries.
- The best technology – highest levels of accreditation with the world’s leading vendors such as Cisco, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.
- Skills and expertise with a UK-based 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC).
- We are a Joscar accredited business which means we are certified to work with leading defense companies who require the highest standards of cyber security.
- We are experts in Cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure so we can provide expert security consultancy on hybrid cloud environments and how best to secure and monitor those environments including Cloud Governance.
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Azure IoT Security
Keeping your IoT solutions secure is the best way to ensure that you can rely on your connected equipment and products. Get connected devices, software and services that span your IoT needs and come with built in IoT security – plus guidance on how to select and implement the right solutions for your organisation.
Stay ahead of compliance issues
Rely on Microsoft Azure to keep track of new standards and government policies and help you ensure that you’re always one step ahead of the latest compliance standards.
With Azure IoT Security you can acheive the following:
- Harden devices with hardware security, multi-layer software defences, IoT device monitoring and renewable security.
- Secure connections with encryption and certificate-based authentication.
- Protect cloud services with security-first Azure infrastructure, privacy controls and comprehensive compliance offerings.
- Empower security teams with agentless asset discovery and threat detection, SIEM/SOAR, XDR and security posture management tools.
- Reduce complexity with integrated device, service and business application solutions that minimise weaknesses.
Access turn-key IoT security solutions
Build an end-to-end system with Azure IoT solutions that are designed to work together – and to help you effortlessly integrate IoT security, visibility and control for every part of your deployment.
Make use of industry leading Azure IoT security tools such as:
- Microsoft Defender for IoT
- Azure Sentinel
- Azure IoT Central
- Azure Sphere
- Azure IoT Edge
- Azure IoT Hub
Get personalised guidance
As trusted Microsoft partner we can bring domain-specific knowledge and Internet of Things security expertise to every customer’s IoT use case and deployment. Our expert team of Cloud Architects, Cloud Security engineers, and software development team can find the right solution for your next IoT project with world class security tools and visibility to safeguard your investment.
sTRATEGIC BENEFITS OF OT AND IoT Security
Enable new business models
Like rental and usage-based pricing using authentic and trusted data from the device. Ensure accurate billing while preventing fraud.
Enable regulatory compliance
By ensuring industry-specific rules for data privacy and safety are enabled by strong encryption and authenticated commands.
Enable data privacy
From chip to cloud to application, both at rest and in motion, using end-to-end encryption and fine-grained access control.
Enable new features
By securely controlling them using an advanced, key-based mechanism that ensures monetisation and prevents service theft.
Enable competitive differentiation
With a secure solution that will give your customers confidence that your solution won’t ever let them down.
Enable local decision/AI
Ensure the data used to make decisions is authentic and integral, and that the AI logic is protected during execution and updates. Make faster, safer decisions.
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Frequently Asked Questions
IoT security is the practice that keeps your IoT systems safe.
IoT security tools protect from threats and breaches, identify and monitor risks and can help fix vulnerabilities.
IoT security ensures the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of your IoT solution.
From increasing the safety of roads, cars, and homes, to fundamentally improving the way we manufacture and consume products, IoT solutions provide valuable data and insights that will enhance the way we work and live.
Success depends on ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of IoT solutions and data while mitigating cybersecurity risks.
So, what should we know about IoT security?
Unsecure IoT can create loss of revenues
Remotely enabled features and usage-based business models – if not securely implemented – are subject to fraud and revenue loss.
Unsecure IoT can create loss of reputation
Breaches of end-user devices or customer data can create the kind of news that can cause long-term harm to your company’s reputation. Good IoT security can prevent that.
Unsecure IoT can create liability and lawsuits
Failure to design, implement and maintain the necessary security in your products can result in undesirable litigation if your products don’t adequately protect customer data.
Unsecure IoT can create regulatory fines
Data privacy is high on the agenda of regulatory authorities, whether they are regional or industry-specific. Failure to adequately secure data end to end can result in large fines and sanctions.
Unsecure IoT can create intellectual property theft
Companies are spending millions developing innovative IoT technologies and much of that is in software and AI. Poor security can allow this valuable IP to be stolen.
Unsecure IoT can create bad data, bad decisions
Data is the lifeblood of IoT, and data that is not adequately secured can be easily manipulated, resulting in inaccurate, poor business decisions, potentially negating the benefits of IoT projects.
Microsoft Defender for IoT – Protects both managed and unmanaged IoT and operational technology devices with agentless asset discovery, vulnerability management and threat detection.
Azure Sentinel – Get a bird’s-eye view of IT, IoT and operational technology security plus intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise with the industry’s first cloud-native SIEM/SOAR platform on a major public cloud.
Azure IoT Central – Azure IoT Central is a ready-made UX and API surface for connecting and managing devices at scale, delivering reliable data for business insights. It preassembles platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, bringing together each service beneath it for an easy-to-configure, comprehensive, and secure IoT offering.
Azure Sphere – Azure Sphere is a secured IoT platform for building solutions that start in silicon and extend through the OS and the cloud. Securely connect, manage, and protect new and existing intelligent devices. Azure Sphere allows you to create, connect, and maintain secured intelligent IoT devices from the edge to the cloud.
Azure IoT Edge – Deploy Azure IoT Edge on premises to break up data silos and consolidate operational data at scale in the Azure Cloud. Remotely and securely deploy and manage cloud-native workloads – such as AI, Azure services or your own business logic – to run directly on your IoT devices. Optimise cloud spend and enable your devices to react faster to local changes and operate reliably even in extended offline periods.
Azure IoT Hub – Build your IoT application with two-way communication, allowing for OTA device updates to help keep IoT devices up to date and secure. Enable highly secure and reliable communication between your Internet of Things (IoT) application and the devices it manages. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. Extend your solution from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning. Compatibility with Azure IoT Edge for building hybrid IoT applications. Combine with Azure Sphere to provide comprehensive end to end security.
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