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Consumer IoT Cybersecurity Labeling Program Launching in the U.S.

Image Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST The Seven Things Consumer Device Manufactures Need to Know to Prepare. In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline and Solar Winds hacks in 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order On Improving…

Embedded Processor Security Features You Should Be Using in Your IoT Design

Today’s embedded processors are increasingly including built-in security features to enable robust cybersecurity in IoT devices. Features such as secure storage, hardware cryptographic accelerators, hardware root of trust, secure boot, trusted execution environments, and port…

Three Levels of Security to Render Hacking Tools Useless

There are many tools that makes it much easier for adversaries to hack IoT devices. Hardware tools can be used to expose insecure I/O interfaces, which is a steppingstone to access plaintext source code, U-Boot…

8 Cybersecurity Steps When Designing an IoT Device: A Checklist

What is on your IoT Cybersecurity checklist? This question was posed by the folks at The Device Chronicle which led to a very interesting dialog. Below is a summary of that conversation discussing eight cybersecurity…

Does Implementation of ISO/SAE 21434 Bring NHTSA's Cybersecurity Best Practices Along For the Ride?

Significant changes in cybersecurity are underway in the automotive industry. Indicative of these changes is a new update to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association’s (NHTSA) Cybersecurity Best Practices for the Safety of Modern Vehicles. …

The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: The 9 Key Points Explained

In December 2020, the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 became law. It is a significant step forward by the federal government to improve the security of IoT devices used in Federal Government…

California and Oregon's IoT Cybersecurity Law: The 7 Key Points Explained

California and Oregon have led the way with the first IoT cybersecurity laws in the country. California’s SB-327 and Oregon’s HB 2395 went into effect in January of 2020. The California legislature was the first…

The Building Blocks of IoT Cyber Security

These Cyber Security Features are the Foundation for a Security by Design Approach The building blocks of cyber security are the basic elements needed to make an IoT device secure. A defense-in-depth security architecture can…

IoT Cybersecurity: 29 Security Laws, Regulations, Standards, and Best Practices

An easy to reference table with summaries and links to each of the twenty-nine Internet of Things (IoT) cyber security has come a long way over the past five years. The Miller-Valasek hack of 1…