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Securing Internet of Things (IoT) can prove a difficult task for software developers
developers if hardware comes without basic security capabilities.
However, securing IoT, and especially IoT edge-devices, can prove a difficult task for software developers if hardware comes without basic security capabilities. For example, when implementing a strong cryptographic algorithm in the software stack, it is the use of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) in the hardware that will ensure the private key cannot be exposed. Therefore, software development for IoT cannot neglect the underlying hardware, which in turn entails that the security approach has to conceive it as a set where the design of hardware influences the design of software. Elements such as the Root of Trust or Chain of Trust are good examples of how software and hardware are related and interconnected and result in joint security considerations to confront current IoT vulnerabilities such as vulnerabilities in communication stack derived from hardware implementation (e.g. which could be faced implementing a hardware isolation and secure boot).