IoT Edge Computing 2020

Building the Business Case for IoT in Retail. With Nikki Baird of RSR and Oliver Guy of SoftwareAG.

IoT devices are everywhere, literally expanding the threat landscape, making it an absolute must to protect IoT devices at their core. From routers and smart home appliances to medical devices and more, these seemingly innocent devices are exposed and worse yet, serve as a back door to private networks and personal data.

Today’s IoT topology is a hodge-podge of standards, communication mechanisms, software, and hardware. Look at a typical home IoT environment that requires a unique hub for every IoT device. This results in complexity and interoperability challenges for widespread adoption and support. Sensors will continue to reduce in size, power, and cost but will remain constrained as to how many features one can bind into a small compute device. Communication standards at the Edge range from WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Zwave, Thread, ANT, and the list is growing. What is needed are smarter Edge devices that provide the services of communication routing, security, aggregation, and resiliency.

The proliferation of mobile devices, cheap radio sensors with microphones, cameras and transmitters means that Enterprise Airspace is under constant threat from a new generation of Internet connected devices. Data exfiltration whether by accident or on purpose has never been easier.