Welcome

- [Instructor] The Internet of Things covers a vast area of automation from cities and railways, to cars and homes, and even to wearable and implanted devices. The two things in common are the use of access networks in the internet to transfer data from machine to machine and very low-cost sensors. The Internet of Things is happening now with new systems and devices being announced almost daily and with a vast range of sensors available to feed them. The population of things on the internet has variously been projected at between 80 and 200 billion devices by 2020.

This is a revolution in technology and, with it, there is the potential for vastly new and challenging security issues, and we're already starting to see them. I'm Malcolm Shore and in my career helping advise on and deliver security for governments and businesses, I've seen many examples of security weaknesses. In this course, I'll explain how you can use IoT effectively in business by architecting it in and we'll look at what commercial IoT solutions are emerging.

I'll start by looking at the approach taken to architecting any technology solution to meet business requirements using a framework called SABSA. We'll look, in particular, at a proposed reference architecture for IoT, the IoT domains involved, and how we architect an effective set of controls to manage the risk to IoT systems. In particular, we'll look at the architecture and security of narrowband networks and commercial IoT application services.

When you finish this course, you'll be well-prepared to take your first steps into securing your IoT-enabled enterprise. Now let's get started with IoT security architecture.