What is IoT Security?

The IoT devices connect to the Internet, secure or non-secure IoT devices, regardless secure or non-secure, the data storage at rest and in transition require an end to end encryption, authentication, and authorizations.

IoT devices require certifications, authorizations, and authentications, as well as the IoT services providing infrastructure and supporting devices also go thru certification requirements, authorization, and authentication are required.

Secure card production requiring physical and Logical controls does require stringent PCI brand or related component-level certifications are necessary for manufacturers and service providers of IoT services.

What is an IoT Security Compliance Audit?

There are no published  IoT based requirements/standards as such; however there are standards for quality, security, availability, and service delivery are in place and can be easily practiced and enforced; yet, the industry best practices are being developed by IoT product developers.  We provide implementation, and assessment services, to validate various standards and requirements being used by the industry.

IoT Assessment Methodology

E4 Auditors, being the most experienced auditing company to conduct secure plant audit services. We can assist and provide with Secure plant design, build, implementation and maintenance of IoT plants having physical and logical security assessments and have continuously offered valued experience in helping customers in GSMA SAS and PCI Card Production, as well as IoT product manufacturer and vendors software developer developers developing IoT APIs worldwide achieving compliance and securing their plants.

As a security auditing company, E4  Auditors provides MC and Amex Card production auditing services, thru Smart Card Auditors for PCI Card Production physical and logical audit services globally.

IoT Assessment  Deliverables

The IoT Audit delivers the complex quality, security and availability part of the service delivery required for IoT technology in general.

The physical and logical security requirements for the IoT device manufacturing or the IoT API software development data center or merely the card manufacturing or the personalization plant that can personalize or manufacture and produce IoT based services giving confidence to consumers that store, process or transact IoT data.

If required our consultants can provide work with you to deliver IoT certification and assessment, documentation necessary for respective certification audits.

What are the threats to IoT wearables?

• IoT devices are inherently vulnerable, as being used for IoT in payments due to smaller memory size and limited CPU processing power, making it difficult for receiving pushed updates for firmware usually using well-known ports and protocols for the IoT devices.
  Also, IoT devices do require an electrical power source, making the remote security updates downloads even more challenging, for prolonged life of the IoT devices.
• Prone to Data leakage and privacy, the IoT payments can generate large amounts of PII data on a personal spending history posing a lucrative target for cybercriminals, can unlawfully track the IoT data as the IoT devices are not immune to data leakage having a potential for higher data leakage due to low resistance
• IoT devices are prone to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, by nature IoT devices do not require any user intervention, thus making it difficult, while an end the users remain unaware of IoT device is being under attack. Mostly when the default credential settings are unchanged and open remote access is not hardened, then it makes easier for attackers to attack and take over the device remotely as the IoT devices are destined for a launching ground of DDoS attacks.