ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis on the cyber-threats landscape within generic ICT environments and its impact on SMEs, it also covers the different standardization and certification schemas that would help SMEs to support a cyber-security strategy and takes into consideration, standardization and best practices for the FORTIKA ecosystem and deployment. The implementation of a complete and reliable edge computing security framework seems to be a promising alternative to protect an Internet of Things (IoT) environment and the overall network of an SME. Moreover, IoT applications, such as healthcare and assistive technologies promise a higher level of quality of life for citizens around the world; on the other hand, however, they increase the attack surface, considerably. SMEs represent the “middle class” of entities using computers, with single or home users at the bottom of the hierarchy and large companies or organizations at the top.
