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Published inJul 2018
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ISBN-139781788832687
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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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Connectivity transport standards


The high scalability and low CPU power requirements of IIoT field devices have encouraged the adoption of messaging protocols such as MQTT and CoAP for resource-constrained devices. These transports run on top of TCP or UDP and use TLS/DTLS for security. In this section, a brief description of the transports and their security assessment is presented.

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

TCP is an open standard maintained by IETF (IETF-TCP) and integral to the internet or TCP/IP protocol stack. TCP provides connection-oriented transport and has been widely used in HTTP-based applications such as e-commerce. In TCP, messages are delivered in order, and it supports retransmission of messages lost in transit, and as such requires considerable time and resources. As a result, message latencies may vary greatly when using TCP.

TCP security

The TLS protocol is usually used to protect transport layer traffic. TLS is an open standard version of SSL version 3 (RFC-TLS...

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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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