The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published a new paper designed to provide a concise overview of the countermeasures necessary to secure industrial endpoints; that is, the industrial internet of things (IIoT).

The paper (PDF) is not meant to provide a checklist for compliance or certification, but rather a starting point to understand what is necessary to ensure IIoT endpoint security. It is, in fact, a distillation of best practices drawn from existing guidance and compliance frameworks: (IISF [IIC-IISF2016], Industrie 4.0 [Ind4.0-ITSec], IEC 62443 [IEC-62443-11], and NIST SP 800-53 [NIST-800-53r4] [NIST-800-53r5]).