Dominos Pizza: A blueprint for secure enterprise IoT deployment
Summary
Increasingly, organisations are embracing smart technologies to underpin innovations that can enhance safety and productivity in every part of our lives, from industrial systems, utilities, and building management to various forms of business enablement. Recently, I had the opportunity to work with Dominos Pizza to evaluate an internally conceived IoT-based business solution they had designed and deployed throughout their store locations. This provided valuable new insight into how security should play into the design and construction of a large IoT business solution, especially within the planning and acquisition phases, and see how a security-driven organisation like Dominos approaches a large-scale project like this. It was also necessary during this initial phase to conduct a full ecosystem security assessment, examining all the critical hardware components, operation software, and associated network communications. During a typical security assessment of an enterprise-wide business solution like this, we are reminded of a couple of key best-practice items that should always be considered.