NIST releases draft practice guide for Internet of Things project addressing lifecycle management

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published for public comment the four final volumes of its Internet of Things project practice guide, providing insight into processes to onboard new devices and address lifecycle management.

“Provisioning network credentials to IoT devices in an untrusted manner leaves networks vulnerable to having unauthorized IoT devices connect to them. It also leaves IoT devices vulnerable to being taken over by unauthorized networks,” NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence said in a Wednesday...