The Security Maturity Model profile for Digital Twins


In Episode S4E17, Frederick Hirsch, an independent consultant and a co-author of the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM) Practitioner’s Guide, speaks with the host, Steve Bowcut, about the SMM profile for Digital Twins

Frederick explains digital twins and gives some practical examples of how they are used. Steve and Frederick explore some of the security issues related to digital twins, including how they can help solve complex security challenges. Frederick provides an excellent overview of the purpose of the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM) Practitioner’s Guide, the SMM Digital Twin Profile, and SMM mappings. 

Resources Mentioned

A page with links to the various SMM documents and other resources:

https://www.iiconsortium.org/smm/

A brochure summarizing OMG organization and its consortia:

https://www.omg.org/memberservices/OMG-brochure.pdf

About our Guest

Frederick Hirsch is an independent consultant. He is a co-author of the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM) Practitioner’s Guide, the SMM Digital Twin Profile, the Retail Profile, and the SMM 62443 Mappings. He is co-chair of the joint ISA IIC Contributing group as well as the SMM Mining Profile team.

In addition to his SMM work, Frederick is also a co-chair of IIC Trustworthiness Task Group. He co-authored the IIC Trustworthiness Framework Foundations document and has written papers on Trustworthiness for the IIC Journal of Innovation. He is also a co-author of the IIC Industrial Internet of Things Security Framework.

Don’t miss this informative overview of the IoT Security Maturity Model Practitioner’s Guide and the SMM Digital Twin Profile.

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Steven Bowcut is an award-winning journalist covering cyber and physical security. He is an editor and writer for Brilliance Security Magazine as well as other security and non-security online publications. Follow and connect with Steve on TwitterFacebookInstagram, and LinkedIn.