Design and Deploy Microsoft Defender for Iot: Leveraging Cloud-Based Analytics and Machine Learning Capabilities - Paperback

by Puthiyavan Udayakumar (Author), R. Anandan (Author)

Microsoft Defender for IoT helps organizations identify and respond to threats aimed at IoT devices, increasingly becoming targets for cyberattacks. This book discusses planning, deploying, and managing your Defender for IoT system. The book is a comprehensive guide to IoT security, addressing the challenges and best practices for securing IoT ecosystems.

The book starts with an introduction and overview of IoT in Azure. It then discusses IoT architecture and gives you an overview of Microsoft Defender. You also will learn how to plan and work with Microsoft Defender for IoT, followed by deploying OT Monitoring. You will go through air-gapped OT sensor management and enterprise IoT monitoring. You also will learn how to manage and monitor your Defender for IoT systems with network alerts and data.

After reading this book, you will be able to enhance your skills with a broader understanding of IoT and Microsoft Defender for IoT-integrated best practices to design, deploy, and manage a secure enterprise IoT environment using Azure.

What You Will Learn

• Understand Microsoft security services for IoT
• Get started with Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Plan and design a security operations strategy for the IoT environment
• Deploy security operations for the IoT environment
• Manage and monitor your Defender for IoT System

Who This Book Is For

Cybersecurity architects and IoT engineers

Back Jacket

Microsoft Defender for IoT helps organizations identify and respond to threats aimed at IoT devices, increasingly becoming targets for cyberattacks. This book discusses planning, deploying, and managing your Defender for IoT system. The book is a comprehensive guide to IoT security, addressing the challenges and best practices for securing IoT ecosystems.

The book starts with an introduction and overview of IoT in Azure. It then discusses IoT architecture and gives you an overview of Microsoft Defender. You also will learn how to plan and work with Microsoft Defender for IoT, followed by deploying OT Monitoring. You will go through air-gapped OT sensor management and enterprise IoT monitoring. You also will learn how to manage and monitor your Defender for IoT systems with network alerts and data.

After reading this book, you will be able to enhance your skills with a broader understanding of IoT and Microsoft Defender for IoT-integrated best practices to design, deploy, and manage a secure enterprise IoT environment using Azure.

What You Will Learn

• Understand Microsoft security services for IoT
• Get started with Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Plan and design a security operations strategy for the IoT environment
• Deploy security operations for the IoT environment
• Manage and monitor your Defender for IoT System

Author Biography

Puthiyavan Udayakumar is a cloud infrastructure architect/senior infrastructure consultant with more than 14 years of experience in the information technology industry. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VMware Certified Professional, and VMware vExpert. He has worked as an infrastructure solution architect/senior engineer in designing, deploying, and rolling out complex virtual and cloud infrastructure. He has extensive hands-on experience with products such as Citrix/VMware/Microsoft Virtualization and Cloud technologies. He has a strong knowledge of cloud solution design and deployment, management of cloud services, cloud migration, and multi-cloud infrastructure management services.

Dr. R. Anandan completed his undergraduate degree, doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering, and post-doctoral degree (D.Sc.) in Computer Science and Engineering in Mexico. He is an IBMS/390 Mainframe professional and a Chartered Engineer from the Institution of Engineers in India and received a fellowship from Bose Science Society, India. He completed seven certification courses (mainly from CISCO). He has published more than 140 research papers in various international journals such as Scopus and SCI. He has presented 90 papers at various international conferences. He received 18 awards from national and international agencies He authored and edited 27 books. He is also an editor for companies such as Springer, Wiley, World Scientific Press, and Nova Publishers.