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“ Through understanding of performance and optimisation of infrastructure , IoT deployment will touch on all elements of power distribution and protection ”
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 applications like antivirus and firewalls do not work with these devices that are out beyond the enterprise ’ s network . Rather , powerful , cohesive encryption algorithms and certificate-based authentication are a must ,” he explained in an article last year . “ The devices and processors living at the edge must each be hardened against attack . Robust identity verification and encrypted data transmission are two critical components of this approach .”
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The ongoing trend of shifting data centre IoT security towards the edge is indicative of a wider migration . As mentioned before , the traditional flow of data out from data centres to enterprises has been reversed by IoT . Furthermore , as these devices are no longer dependent on human
“ Through understanding of performance and optimisation of infrastructure , IoT deployment will touch on all elements of power distribution and protection ”
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input to create data , the volume of information being sent from the edge of the network , back to data centres , and out again to enterprises , is rendering traditional centralised data centre architecture unfeasible .
The solution , many believe , is to push for the decentralisation of data centre infrastructure . Jean S . Bozman , vice president and principal analyst at Hurwitz & Associates in Palo Alto , said recently that , since “ transporting data over large distances for processing incurs a delay that real-time applications can ’ t tolerate ,” a better solution is for processing to be done at the network ’ s edge . “ Data center managers will need to deploy more forwardlooking capacity management in these areas to be able to proactively meet the business priorities associated with IoT ,” added Skorupa .
63 datacentremagazine . com