Risky Business: 6 Key Strategies for Helping Your Customers Secure IoT Endpoints
connect to networks that provide:
- Standardized encryption algorithms
- End-to-end security paradigm
- Mutual authentication
- Integrity protection
- Confidentiality
Messaging characteristics of the network need to support encryption, origin authentication, integrity protection and replay protection. Otherwise, bad actors can (among other things): a. pretend to be a good device but send bad data, b. interfere with good devices transmitting their information, or c. pretend to be the network and tells good end devices to do bad things.
This protection, combined with mutual authentication, ensures that network traffic:
- Has not been altered
- Is coming from a legitimate device
- Is not comprehensible to eavesdroppers
- Has not been captured and replayed by rogue actors
All of this supports the work done at the endpoint level.
Continuous Improvement
Security is an ever-evolving challenge, which is why some describe it as a journey, not a destination. To embrace this spirit of continuous improvement, your customers need to make security an integral part of how they operate.
As an ongoing process, security begins with assessment, so your customers can identify vulnerabilities and prioritize. Once they’ve addressed these top priorities, it’s time to go back and re-assess, taking into account changes in the threat landscape, new security tools and techniques, and the evolution of their products and services.
Start with Sierra
Sierra Wireless takes a holistic view to IoT security, considering every aspect of security from end to end. Sierra is the only cellular IoT company with a comprehensive security approach from device to network to cloud, and Sierra follows a design process that reflects a deep knowledge of all points of vulnerability within that chain. The Sierra Wireless security team is recognized for use of best practices, based on the latest technology, expertise, and processes, and has gained a reputation for being both proactive and responsive when addressing security issues when they arise. Sierra regularly collaborates with OEM partners to secure deployments throughout the development process.
Why Partner with GetWireless and Sierra Wireless?
Together with Sierra Wireless, GetWireless offers a global channel ecosystem designed to help our resale partners drive incremental revenue by offering leading IoT products, a robust partner program and an easy partnership that provides tools to grow your business. Our channel program fuels collaborative growth, together with our partners. Our services are based on decades of experience working exclusively with channel partners in the IoT, mobility, in-building connectivity, fleet tracking and many wireless markets.
GetWireless offers the solutions, tools and support to enable you and your customers to succeed in IoT security. Contact us to learn more or to speak to one of our IoT experts today.
David Smith is the Vice President of IoT Solutions at GetWireless.
This guest blog is part of a Channel Futures sponsorship.
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