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Published inJul 2018
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Sravani Bhattacharjee
Sravani Bhattacharjee
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Sravani Bhattacharjee

Sravani Bhattacharjee was a technology leader at Cisco untill 2014, where she led the architectural planning and security evaluations of several enterprise cloud/datacenter solutions. She is currently the Principal of Irecamedia, where she collaborates with Industrial IoT innovators (incl. IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, and Intel) to strategize and create compelling whitepapers and a wide variety of editorial and technical marketing content that drives awareness and business decisions. She is a member of the IEEE IoT chapter, a writer, and a speaker. She is the Managing Editor of “The IoT Review”, a podcast and blogging platform on Industrial and Enterprise IoT (iot.irecamedia.com).
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Endpoint data integrity


The integrity of data is the very basis of data-driven business operations. Any compromise in the integrity of context-sensitive data can potentially compromise the entire IIoT value chain. Common examples of endpoint data include raw data, configuration and log files, secrets, software libraries, and binary executables. These can be classified into:

  • Data at rest (DAR), or stored data
  • Data in use (DIU); that is, files and data resources used at runtime
  • Data in motion (DIM); that is, data leaving the device

Integrity verifications enable the detection of any intended and malicious or unintended alterations in the data. The CRC checksum has traditionally been used to verify data integrity; however, the modern threat environment demands more advanced integrity controls, because an attacker can modify the checksum to match their changes to the data.

DAR integrity can be achieved by securely storing the secrets in hardware/TPM, or by using specialized software-enabled stores...

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Published in: Jul 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788832687

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Sravani Bhattacharjee

Sravani Bhattacharjee was a technology leader at Cisco untill 2014, where she led the architectural planning and security evaluations of several enterprise cloud/datacenter solutions. She is currently the Principal of Irecamedia, where she collaborates with Industrial IoT innovators (incl. IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, and Intel) to strategize and create compelling whitepapers and a wide variety of editorial and technical marketing content that drives awareness and business decisions. She is a member of the IEEE IoT chapter, a writer, and a speaker. She is the Managing Editor of “The IoT Review”, a podcast and blogging platform on Industrial and Enterprise IoT (iot.irecamedia.com).
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