MQTT Q&A: MQTT Security and Best Practices with HiveMQ

is mqtt secure yes mqtt is secure mqtt is used  in the most critical deployments worldwide   for device connectivity and security is one  of the key concerns for every deployment   there are many ways to secure mqtt the  protocol itself is a layer 7 protocol   which means it relies on underlying  layers usually mqtt is used with   tls in order to have an encrypted communication  channel between a device and the broker so almost all professional deployments i am aware  of use so-called authentication and authorization   mechanisms in order to make sure devices can  only connect to the broker if they are allowed   to if they have the value credentials and or  certificates and authorization make sure devices   can only publish and subscribe to topics they are  allowed to and can only do their specific actions   they were designed to do so even if a device  gets hacked for some reason it cannot do any   harm and this is super important  there are a lot of best practices   we have a whole blog post series on hivemq.com  you can find it in the description below   where you can learn more about how to secure mqtt  from the network layer to the application layer   what is important though is to use an mqtt broker  which is designed for security while for home   automation purposes many open source brokers are  sufficient for professional use we recommend to   go with an enterprise grade broker like hivemq  which is used in many of fortune 500 companies   for the most mission critical deployments you  have for mqtt and massive device connectivity

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Length: 2min 9sec (129 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 26 2020