A Smarter, More Secure Internet of Things

A smarter,
more secure
Internet of Things
Travis Greene
Identity Solutions Strategist, NetIQ

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Internet of Things

Internet of Things
What “things” and how did we get there?
Goldman Sachs, What is the Internet of Things?, September 2014

Two Critical Components
Things People behind
the “Things”

The Internet of Things
- A Few Examples

The Risk Presented by
the Internet of Things

• The Internet of Things
will change the way we
use and interact with
technology.
• Devices will constantly
monitor and respond
both to us and to
each other.
• We must learn to
manage this interaction.

“Another evolving area of risk lies in
physical objects—industrial components,
automobiles, home automation products,
and consumer devices, to name a few—that
are being integrated into the information
network, a trend typically referred to as the
‘Internet of Things.’
The interconnection of billions of devices
with IT and operational systems will
introduce a new world of security risks for
businesses, consumers, and governments.”
2014 PwC State of Cybercrime Survey

“The development towards an IoT is likely to
give rise to a number of ethical issues and
debates in society, many of which have
already surfaced in connection with the
current Internet and ICT in general, such as
loss of trust, violations of privacy, misuse of
data, ambiguity of copyright, digital divide,
identity theft, problems of control and of
access to information and freedom of
speech and expression. However, in IoT,
many of these problems gain a new
dimension in light of the increased
complexity.”
2013 European Commission Report on the IoT

Gartner Hype Cycle

Too many users with
too much access

Too many users with
too much access
devices

We can’t leave it to the
manufacturers’ plan

We can’t stop attacks,
but we can mitigate the
damage

Focus on the basics
Enforce
access
controls
Monitor
user
activity
Minimize
rights

But how do we understand if
the activity is appropriate?

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The answer is
NOT more data
• Security teams already have too
much data to deal with
• New tools and new
infrastructures compound the
problem

Simply put…
There’s too much noise and
not enough insight

Security needs context…
What
access?
Access
okay?
Normal?
Where?
Who?
Identity?

We must adopt identity-centric
thinking if we want to have any
chance of maintaining control
over the world we are building

The Identity of Everything allows the
creation of a unique set of attributes
• Who or what every connected item or person is
• What permissions those objects and people have
• What they do with those entitlements
• Who granted the permissions
• How other people and devices may interact

• Google Nest, a home
automation hub
• Collects data from other
appliances & sensors
• But there is a homeowner
identity behind it that Google
wants to market to
• And that owner will have
relationships to many other
things
The Identity of Everything will be both
Hierarchical and Matrixed

Actions for Today, Tomorrow, Next Year
• Understand the identity stores you already have
• Examine how identity information is used in your
organization
• Look for ways to integrate identity context into your
product design to protect data collected by IoT sensors
• Start to build a framework to handle more
sophisticated, aggregate identity, that can scale
• Work towards an extensible identity framework that
will encompass people, products, devices and services

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