In this white paper, we will discuss about the role and importance of Cybersecurity for IoT and OT devices in order to meet the needs or requirements of recommended security guidelines and best practices that others can use as a basis for future standards, certifications, laws, policies, and/or product ratings.

The purpose of this document is to provide high level guidance on security measures either peculiar or relevant to the IoT and OT devices. Most, if not all, of these security guidelines would apply to any Internet-connected devices. This paper assumes the end-to-end processing model of the Internet, in which application features such as security are handled by end nodes of the network, client and server hardware...