Practical Internet of Things Security

Chapter 6. Identity and Access Management Solutions for the IoT

While society begins to adopt smart home and IoT wearables, IoT devices and applications are diversifying toward broader application in professional, government, and other environments as well. The network connectivity needed to support them is becoming ubiquitous and to that end devices will need to be identified and access provisioned in new and different environments and organizations. This chapter provides an introduction to identity and access management for IoT devices. The identity lifecycle is reviewed and a discussion on infrastructure components required for provisioning authentication credentials is provided, with a heavy focus on PKI. We also examine different types of ...