NIST seeks comment on project targeting trusted Internet of Things onboarding, risk management

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued for comment a project description on an initiative aimed at helping organizations safely bring on board Internet of Things devices and manage security over their entire life cycle.

“Network-layer onboarding of an Internet of Things (IoT) device is the provisioning of network credentials to that device. Network credentials are needed so that only authorized devices can connect to and use an organization’s networks. However, the established approaches to network-layer onboarding for...