IoT Security

It is important to implement good security for your IoT devices. They can be vulnerable to various types of security threats, such as hacking, malware, and data breaches. If an IoT device is compromised, it can be used as an entry point to launch attacks on your other devices or networks, which may quickly overwhelm your systems and cause major problems.

IoT Security Challenges

1. Exposed to the Internet

IoT devices are designed to be constantly connected to the Internet, which expose them to attacks from anyone who has access to the Internet.

2. Diverse Types of Devices

Each IoT device plays a specific role in a system, which may require different levels of security measures and protocols. It may be challenging to implement a consistent level of security across your IoT network.

3. Limited Resources

IoT devices have limited processing power and memory. This will make it difficult to implement complex security measure in your IoT devices. Thus, PQVault’s infrastructure helps to achieve the highest possible security while not imposing any burden on your devices and infrastructure.

Let PQVault protect your IoT devices

Follow these simple steps to protect your devices:

In the online management tool, create a cluster, then create as many devices as you have in your IoT network
Implement PQVault IoT-SDK in your IoT devices to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify your data or messages
Assign to your devices the proper API key and secret credentials and start protecting your IoT devices
Create protected data by first setting appropriate policies and then invoking encryption and/or signature operations

In an IoT network, there are countless amounts of messages transmitted from one device to another. Part of these messages may contain private and confidential details and should be encrypted at all times.

A malicious actor may impersonate one or more of your devices and send false messages to try to crack and figure out your cyber defenses. Messages between devices should always be authenticated before read.

With PQVault’s SDK for IoT devices, you can protect and authenticate messages in your IoT network as to prevent potential attacks to your systems. Worry not about the resource consumption on your devices, our SDK is specially optimized to be used by IoT devices.

To ensure your IoT systems run smoothly, periodic updates are necessary. However, an attacker may intercept your legitimate updates and modify it to serve his/her malicious purposes! Hence, it is important for your devices to authenticate the legitimacy of the update packages before running it.

PQVault offers you a simple yet effective way to sign your update packages and verify them locally on your devices. Give attackers no chance in threatening your systems.

In large IoT networks, access control of devices to resources is commonly delegated via clusters (in a group) to assign access rights to large groups of devices easily. However, there are unique cases where the rights should be given to just specific devices.

PQVault provides you ways to set access control to encrypted resources from the cluster level down to a singular device by setting appropriate policies.