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Enhancing IoT Security
IoT Security Training that’s tough as a firewall, fun as a hackathon, and smart as your next career move.
- 24 Interactive Lessons and 131 topics mapped to the official exam objectives
Intermediate Self-paced · 1 year access
24Interactive Lessons
131Topics
87Flashcards
87Glossary of terms
01 / Skills you'll get
What you will be able to do
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Enroll in our IoT cyber security course to learn how to design secure IoT systems, protect data privacy, and implement trust models.
In this course, dive into cybersecurity and IoT fundamentals, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures. Then apply encryption, authentication, and access control to real-world scenarios.
- Threat Analysis & Risk Assessment: Identify vulnerabilities and model threats in IoT systems.
- Secure IoT Design & Development: Build security into IoT devices from design to deployment.
- Cryptography & Authentication: Implement encryption, access control, and trust models for IoT networks.
- Privacy Protect Techniques: Safeguard sensitive data and comply with privacy regulations.
- IoT Security Policies & Protocols: Develop and enforce security measures for IoT deployments.
Course Highlights
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24 Structured Lessons Comprehensive coverage of core course objectives
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1 Year Full Access Self-paced learning accessible anytime on all devices
02 / Lessons & labs
See exactly what you will learn and practice
Lessons
24 Interactive Lessons · 131 topics01 Introduction +
02 The Internet of Things and its Security Requirements 11 topics +
- Internet of Things - A brief introduction
- Networking in the IoT device - The framework
- Need to secure IoT - Its limitations
- Cyber security versus IoT security and cyber-physical systems
- IoT architecture
- Authorization and authentication requirement in IoT
- Security in enabling technologies behind the Internet of Things
- IoT networking protocols and its security
- Domain-specific IoT and its security concerns
- IoT supporting technologies
- Conclusion
03 IoT Security - Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures 9 topics +
- Introduction
- Information Assurance: components
- Threats
- Vulnerabilities
- Risk
- Insecure Access control
- Attacks: types, composition, and tools
- Threat modeling for IoT systems
- Conclusion
04 Security Engineering for IoT Development 5 topics +
- Introduction
- Building Security into design and development
- The IoT security life cycle: Secure design
- Conclusion
05 IoT Security Lifecycle 4 topics +
- Introduction
- Phase 2: Implementation and Integration
- Phase 3: Operations and maintenance
- Phase 4: Dispose
06 IoT as Interconnection of Threats 5 topics +
- Sybil attack detection in vehicular network
- Malware Propagation and control in Internet of Things
- Solution-based analysis of attack vectors on smart home systems
- Network robustness of the Internet of Things
- Conclusion
07 Crypto Foundations I 5 topics +
- Cryptography and its role in securing the IoT
- Cryptography and its primitives in the IoT
- Secrecy and secret-key capacity in IoT
- Encryption and decryption
- Conclusion
08 Crypto Foundations II 9 topics +
- Message integrity- Hash functions and their security
- Message authentication
- Random number generation
- Cipher suites
- Signature algorithm means of IoT node authentication
- Cryptographic key management
- Examining cryptographic controls for IoT protocols
- Transport encryption
- Conclusion
09 Privacy Preservation for the Internet of Things 6 topics +
- Privacy preservation
- Classification of privacy threats in IoT
- Privacy preservation techniques
- Futuristic approach of privacy preservation data dissemination
- Privacy preservation for IoT used in smart buildings- A case study
- Conclusion
10 Location Privacy Enhancement in the Internet of Vehicles 4 topics +
- Location privacy and its requirements in IoV
- Traditional location-privacy preservation solutions
- A new location-privacy preservation scheme: A MixGroup approach
- Conclusion
11 Privacy Protection in Key Personal IoT Applications 3 topics +
- Concept of personal IoT
- Security aspect of personal IoT
- Conclusion
12 Trust and Trust Models for the IoT 6 topics +
- Concept of trust and its role in securing IoT
- A brief study on Trust Management System
- Classification of Trust Management Systems in IoT network
- Challenges in existing trustable IoT techniques
- Introducing Nova-Genesis as an IoT architecture
- Conclusion
13 Framework for Privacy and Trust in IoT 4 topics +
- The concept of user-centric Internet of Things
- Issues in user-centric Internet of Things
- SocIoTal- A socially aware citizen-centric Internet of Things
- Conclusion
14 Preventing Unauthorized Access to Sensor Data and Authentication in IoT 7 topics +
- The idea of cooperation in IoT
- The practical implementation of cooperative authentication
- Bargaining-based dynamic game model for cooperative authentication
- Analysis of dynamic game model for cooperative authentication
- Variants of entity authentication
- Message authentication: content delivery in VANET
- Conclusion
15 Computational Security for the IoT and Beyond 6 topics +
- An introduction to computational models and their security
- Complex systems
- Examples of complex systems with their security characteristics
- Computational tools for complex systems
- Future scope
- Conclusion
16 Identity and Access Management Solutions for the IoT 6 topics +
- Introduction to identity and access management for the IoT
- The identity lifecycle
- Authentication credentials
- IoT IAM infrastructure
- Authorization and access control
- Conclusion
17 Privacy-Preserving Time Series Data Aggregation for IoT 3 topics +
- Data aggregation on IoT system
- Time-series data aggregation privacy preservation scheme
- Conclusion
18 Path Generation Scheme for Real-Time Green IoT 4 topics +
- Green Internet of Things: An introduction
- Real-time GIOT and its issues
- Real-time query processing in the Green Internet of Things
- Conclusion
19 Security Protocols for IoT Access Networks and Their Impact on Mobile Networks 4 topics +
- Existing security features of IoT protocols
- Futuristic security protocol/algorithm for IoT network
- Impact of IoT security on mobile networks
- Conclusion
20 Cloud Security for the IoT 7 topics +
- Cloud services and the IoT
- IoT threats from the perspective of cloud security
- Exploring cloud service provider IoT offerings
- Cloud IoT security controls
- An enterprise IoT cloud security architecture
- New directions in cloud-enabled IOT computing
- Conclusion
21 Policy-Based Approaches for Informed Consent in IoT 3 topics +
- Informed consent
- A policy-based solution for informed consent in IoT
- Conclusion
22 Blockchains for Internet of Things 9 topics +
- Blockchain technology: The introduction
- Crypto-currencies
- Bitcoin P2P network
- Distributed consensus
- Smart contracts
- Blockchain wallets
- Altcoins
- Anonymity
- Conclusion
23 Game Theory Foundation 7 topics +
- Introduction to Game-Theoretic approach
- Best response and Nash equilibrium
- Mixed-strategy or randomized-strategy
- Repeated games
- Bayesian games
- Coalitional games
- Conclusion
24 Security Products 4 topics +
- Existing IoT security products
- Testbed on security and privacy of IoTs
- IoT databases and its security
- Conclusion
03 / FAQs
Questions before you start
Who is this course for?+
This IoT security course is ideally suited for:
- Engineering students/researchers in computer science, IT, or electronics.
- IT professionals transitioning to IoT security roles.
- Developers building secure IoT solutions.
Which IoT certification is best?+
The "best" depends on your goals:
- For beginners: CertNexus CIoTP (vendor-neutral, covers IoT architecture/security).
- For security specialists: CertNexus CIoTSP (focused on risk management/threat modeling).
- For cloud integration: AWS IoT Specialty or Microsoft Azure IoT.
- For industry recognition: CISSP (includes IoT security domains).
What is the salary of an IoT cybersecurity engineer?+
The average salary for an IoT security specialist in the US is around $128,000 annually.
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