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Security is non-negotiable on connected products. This hub covers IoT security platforms, threat-modelling methodology, hardware roots of trust, secure provisioning, OTA security, and the operational practices that keep fleets out of botnets.
5 essays published in this topic
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When a TPM, secure element, or PUF is justified on a connected product — and when secure-boot and flash encryption are enough. Practical 2026 picks and trade-offs.
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Each item on the OWASP IoT Top 10, translated from the abstract into the concrete: what to test, what to fix, and what to ship in your IoT product.
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How to threat-model an IoT product without academic overhead — STRIDE applied to firmware, cloud, and mobile, with a worked example for a smart-lock product.
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A 2026 comparison of IoT security platforms — Armis, Nozomi, Claroty, Defender for IoT, and Forescout — for product teams and CISOs.
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A practical security baseline for connected products — what to do, in what order, and what can wait until v2.
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Comparison guides for IoT development boards, sensors, gateways, and prototyping kits. Pick the right hardware for your connected product.
Integrating IoT data with ERP, CRM, BI, and business systems. Webhooks, streaming, data lakes, multi-cloud architectures, and middleware patterns.
Picking microcontrollers, designing firmware, BLE battery life, mobile companion apps, and the device-side engineering that makes products work.
AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Google Cloud IoT, self-hosted platforms, time-series storage, and cost-modeling at scale.
MQTT, CoAP, LoRaWAN, Matter, Thread, OCPP, OPC UA — pick the right protocol and ship a device that interoperates.
Predictive maintenance, smart factories, OEE dashboards, digital twins, and the OT/IT integration that makes Industry 4.0 real.
Matter, Thread, local-first design, voice assistants, energy monitoring, and the consumer-IoT decisions product teams face in 2026.
IoT applications across healthcare, energy, EV charging, agriculture, retail, hospitality, mining, and education. Vertical-specific patterns.
OTA pipelines, fleet observability, device onboarding at scale, incident response, and the SRE practices that keep IoT fleets healthy.
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One practical IoT engineering essay a month — covering exactly the topics in these hubs.