Category Archives: Security

The 5 Best Practices For Cloud and IoT Security

The cloud has become an extremely popular place for developers to place IoT systems and devices. The strengths of the cloud lie in how easy it is to scale up and how straightforward it is for users. That being said, that doesn’t tell the whole story. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, […]

How to make a small, low-cost, remote accessible security camera with an ESP32

Important notice: This post is about the legacy Nabto 4/Micro platform which has been superseded by the Nabto 5/Edge platform. Nabto Edge officially supports ESP32 – but the tutorial outlined in this post has not yet been migrated. In our former blog post ‘RTSP P2P streaming through Nabto‘, where we talked about how to create […]

Pairing and Access Control: Part 2 – Client Implementation

Important notice: This post is about access control in the legacy Nabto 4/Micro platform. For modern access control in Nabto 5/Edge, see the intro to security in Nabto Edge. Also see the general comparison of Nabto 4/Micro (uNabto) and Nabto 5/Edge. This is the second blog post of the two posts about access control in […]

Pairing and Access Control: Part 1 – Intro and Device

Important notice: This post is about access control in the legacy Nabto 4/Micro platform. For modern access control in Nabto 5/Edge, see the intro to security in Nabto Edge. Also see the general comparison of Nabto 4/Micro (uNabto) and Nabto 5/Edge. This blog post is the first of two that describe all the steps necessary […]

Secure App Access to Raspberry Pi Camera

Important notice: This post is about the legacy Nabto 4/Micro platform which has been superseded by the Nabto 5/Edge platform. In this post we will show you how to set up a standard USB webcam with a Raspberry Pi (RPI) and the Nabto platform for easy access and high security: There are already many good […]

Security in Nabto P2P/IoT solutions

Security in IoT and especially in home security solutions has been subject for several recent articles and debate, for instance see http://thenewstack.io/snooping-webcam-reveals-security-dangers-internet-things/. Since the article above covers the general security issues of P2P, the same concerns of course apply to Nabto based solutions – this post addresses these concerns and summarizes the security principles of our […]