Securing an IIoT device essentially consists of securing the device with hardened software components, secure management of the device for any software updates, and so on. The importance of hardening the devices in an IoT environment is self-explanatory, as vulnerabilities at the device level leave not only that device compromised, but can potentially lead to making the entire IoT network insecure. Hence, it's important that essential device-hardening techniques are deployed. Some of these include making sure that any unnecessary service (specifically remote access), applications, or software are removed from the device. Any unused accounts (including factory defaults) and legacy protocols and logins ...
IIoT device and IIoT device management
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