conference. “You effectively have people staking out a claim in the area without further thought to security.” According to Alan Grau, VP of IoT and embedded solutions, at Sectigo, the solutions to these problems lie where the problems themselves are occurring: at the edge. “Traditional security
“Through understanding of performance and optimisation of infrastructure, IoT deployment will touch on all elements of power distribution and protection” — Irish Advantage
applications like antivirus and firewalls
input to create data, the volume of
do not work with these devices that are
information being sent from the edge
out beyond the enterprise’s network.
of the network, back to data centres,
Rather, powerful, cohesive encryption
and out again to enterprises, is render-
algorithms and certificate-based
ing traditional centralised data centre
authentication are a must,” he explained
architecture unfeasible.
in an article last year. “The devices and
The solution, many believe, is to push
processors living at the edge must each
for the decentralisation of data centre
be hardened against attack. Robust
infrastructure. Jean S. Bozman, vice
identity verification and encrypted data
president and principal analyst at
transmission are two critical components
Hurwitz & Associates in Palo Alto, said
of this approach.”
recently that, since “transporting data over large distances for processing
DECENTRALISED DATA CENTRES
incurs a delay that real-time applica-
The ongoing trend of shifting data
tions can’t tolerate,” a better solution
centre IoT security towards the edge
is for processing to be done at the
is indicative of a wider migration. As
network’s edge. “Data center manag-
mentioned before, the traditional flow
ers will need to deploy more forward-
of data out from data centres to
looking capacity management in these
enterprises has been reversed by IoT.
areas to be able to proactively meet
Furthermore, as these devices are
the business priorities associated with
no longer dependent on human
IoT,” added Skorupa. da t a c e nt re ma ga z in e. com
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