IoT Advisory Services
Secure IoT Solutions and Strategies From Ideation to Realization
Your Partner for Secure IoT Solutions
We partner with our customers, installation partners and manufacturer community globally, driving innovation and providing strategies that deliver meaningful return on investment. Through our combination of IT and OT expertise, deployment support, installation enhancement services, broad portfolio of products and supply chain expertise, Wesco and our partners support you from ideation and realization to delivery at scale.
IoT Advisory Services
• Evaluation of organizational readiness – people, processes and technology subsystems
• Business transformation workshops – Design Thinking, Agile and Lean innovation methodologies
• Security-first strategy and technology roadmap creation
• Use case identification and prioritization
• Business change management
Innovation Through Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Methods
Wesco’s IoT advisory services guide our customers through an ideation process that leverages Design Thinking, Agile and Lean methods. These three methods for innovation work in combination to efficiently design, deliver and improve solutions. We begin with a Design Thinking workshop that focuses on the customer and user experience. This focus allows for divergence from preconceived notions, revealing a broader set of possibilities from which we converge on solutions that are feasible, profitable and desirable. The addition of Agile and Lean methodologies provides operational structure and iterative improvement based on customer feedback.
Thinking Identify the best possible solution
Design Thinking Workshops
Wesco and our partners will conduct a workshop that sets you on a path to digital transformation whether we are building your IoT strategy or solving a defined business challenge. Workshops can be held in our Innovation Center or on site at one of your locations. We follow the standard Design Thinking methodology and bring our industry, technology and supply chain expertise to deliver a valuable session.
Secure IoT Solutions
Digital transformation is a complex process that involves the integration of technology into an organization’s operations to improve efficiency, productivity and customer experience. However, this transformation should not come at the cost of security. A security-first approach is critical to digital transformation and helps ensure that security is incorporated into the entire process, from ideation to realization. By integrating security into the digital transformation process, organizations can achieve their transformation goals while mitigating the risk of cyberattacks, data breaches and other security incidents that could undermine their success.
A security-first mindset – By adopting this mindset, organizations can avoid costly security breaches that could result in significant damage to their reputation, operations and financial stability. Furthermore, a security-first approach can help foster a culture of security awareness and responsibility within an organization, promoting a proactive and vigilant attitude towards cybersecurity.
A security-first architecture – Our IoT solutions are designed with security in mind. We aim to maximize the integrated capabilities of your implementation by minimizing the risk to your critical operations and data. Running IoT solutions on designated networks, separate from your IT infrastructure, can mitigate risk by isolating the services from your business operations, but you may sacrifice valuable integrations with business systems. Instead, we begin by creating a defensible environment, applying air gaps and shrinking the domain to minimize the threat landscape.
Monitor endpoints – Sensors have a notoriously poor reputation with cybersecurity professionals. By implementing a secure architecture and employing sophisticated monitoring applications, we can help you realize greater benefits from your IoT solutions, while defending your network and monitoring endpoints.
As a Fortune 500 business, Wesco understands the importance of your security, which is why we and our partners put security first.
Secure Solution Design, Specification and Testing
Wesco can engineer your end-to-end solution and test a proof-of-concept in one of our working labs. We test interoperability with networks, hardware, software, APIs and communication protocols. Our Technology & Support Services team also evaluates product and solution performance, so the final solution delivers results. Once your solution is designed and tested, we will implement and scale your solution across the enterprise with the support of our integration partners.
Design and Engineering
• Cybersecurity alignment from endpoint to cloud
• Digital twin modeling
• Enterprise application integration strategy
• Enterprise network, security and communication architecture design
• Interoperability testing (networks, hardware, software and APIs)
• Secure IoT solution specification development
• Site audits and feasibility studies
• Technology selection and end-to-end solution development Get started today. Visit us at Wesco.com/IoT-info.
Wesco Is Uniquely Qualified To Deliver Smart Solutions
As a global leader in network infrastructure, security, electrical and power solutions, Wesco’s Technology & Support Services team has deep expertise and a connected ecosystem of technology partners. We bring IT and OT together. From future-proof networks built on Utility-Grade Infrastructure (UTG) to software, devices and cybersecurity, Wesco and our ecosystem of innovation partners address the entire technology stack for secure IoT deployments.
Technical expertise – Our teams have expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), information and operating technologies (IT and OT), data science, integration, network and security engineering and software development. Labs and Innovation Centers – Our teams drive innovation, test new technologies and develop secure IoT solutions in our global labs and Innovation Centers.
Global services – Wesco provides supply chain, deployment and installation enhancement services to efficiently manage and scale your solution globally.
Partners – Deploying secure IoT solutions requires a network of supplier and integrator partners. Wesco has relationships with thousands of partners to support the entire technology stack for materials and installation expertise.
Wesco Is Ready To Help You on Your Digital Journey
Digital transformation is a journey, and our Technology & Support Services team guides our customers on that path. Through our domain expertise we help businesses unlock new revenue streams, efficiencies and possibilities by using an IoT advisory approach that integrates strategy, technology and best practices to drive smart outcomes.