Security News > 2023 > January > Securing IoT with Microsoft Defender for IoT sensors

IoT hardware is at the heart of much modern operational technology, the systems that support businesses, the systems that mix modern IoT hardware with legacy control and data collection devices.

So how can we protect our devices, networks and businesses, especially when we already have a large estate of deployed hardware? Microsoft's Defender for IoT is one option, adding network sensors and firmware analysis tools to help spot compromised and at-risk hardware and working in conjunction with Microsoft Sentinel to use machine learning to identify threats early.

The Microsoft Sentinel option for Defender for IoT lets businesses make IoT hardware part of their security operations center, allowing security teams to use familiar tools and dashboards to protect operational systems as well as IT platforms.

Microsoft is planning to add mapping tools to this, so security teams can link IoT hardware to specific locations, which can help triage incidents by identifying important locations; a threat in a drill site, for example, no matter how isolated, will be much more critical than an issue in an office HVAC system.

Reducing IoT security risks with Microsoft Defender.

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