Cisco: Secure IoT networks, not the devices

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IoT Threat Defense is Cisco’s answer to limiting damage if when IoT devices are compromised

With networking pros unable to trust the security of Internet of Things devices, Cisco says they should focus on implementing network-based security protections that limit the blast radius of IoT security breaches.

This week Cisco unveiled a new package named IoT Threat Defense at the company’s IoT World Forum in London.

IoT Threat Defense combines seven separate offerings, including network-segmentation rule creator TrustSec, network behavior analytics platform Stealthwatch and device-visibility offering named Cisco Identity Service Engine.

[ The position paper Freshthinking to SAFENET for IoT advocated these year’s ago…]

Cisco’s basic IoT security premise is that internet-connected devices cannot be trusted as secure. It says some device manufacturers are building security protections into devices, but that process is taking years to implement.

To protect IoT deployments, Cisco recommends that customers isolate the devices on network segments. Traditional segmentation using VLANS can become complicated at an IoT-deployment scale though, Cisco says.

Cisco’s TrustSec platform that includes network segmentation capabilities.

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