To round out your skills in IoT security, you'll protect and dispose of sensitive data when appropriate. You'll also manage risks related to software installations, patches, and operating systems. Lastly, you'll protect local memory and storage, and prevent physical port access.
IoT Security: Privacy, Software, and Physical Security
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IoT Security: Privacy, Software, and Physical Security
This course is part of Internet of Things (IoT) Security (Exam ITS-110) Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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6 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
In this course, you will maintain user privacy, manage software risks, and improve the physical security of IoT systems.
Skills you'll gain
- Application Security
- Internet Of Things
- Operating Systems
- Patch Management
- Release Management
- Vulnerability Management
- Cloud Services
- Cyber Attacks
- Data Security
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Network Security
- Information Privacy
- Information Systems Security
- Data Storage
- Mobile Security
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Platforms
- Hardening
- Personally Identifiable Information
- Cybersecurity
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December 2025
Assessments
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the Internet of Things (IoT) Security (Exam ITS-110) Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course
As an Internet of Things (IoT) Security Practitioner, you should be concerned about data privacy not only from the perspective of protecting users, but also protecting the organizations that you represent. Violations of data privacy can have consequences affecting customers, can harm the organization's reputation, and can put intellectual property or trade secrets at risk. And failure to protect data properly may also have legal consequences to the organizations entrusted with that data.
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1 reading5 plugins
A wide variety of security issues are caused by flaws in software throughout its entire lifecycle—from development, deployment, and maintenance through its retirement.
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You've protected the security of your IoT systems through careful design and configuration of your networks, development or selection of secure software, attention to updates and patches, application of secure authentication and authorization, monitoring, and numerous other considerations. However, when an attacker gains physical access to devices, many of your protections are rendered moot.
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4 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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1 reading1 assignment1 plugin
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