A leading industry standards community has published its first guidelines for the testing of IoT security products, in a bid to drive independent benchmarking and certification efforts.
The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) said its Guidelines for Testing of IoT Security Products document was produced with input from testers and vendors.
AMTSO board member, Vlad Iliushin, argued that this is a currently under-served space, meaning users still don’t have good enough visibility into the pros and cons of products on the market.
“The testing of IoT security solutions is quite different from anti-malware testing as they need to protect a huge variety of different smart devices in businesses and homes, so the setup of the test environment can be challenging,” he added.
“Also, as smart devices mostly are primarily run on Linux, testers have to use specific threat samples that these devices are vulnerable to in order to make their evaluations relevant. With our guidelines, we addressed these particularities, hoping that they provide valuable guidance that can set the direction in fair IoT security testing.”
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