Consulting firm BCG predicts $267B will be spent on IoT technologies, products, and services by 2020. This means intensifying IoT-enabled infrastructures’ defenses will be the topmost priority for enterprises. Experts share how channel partners can play a role in securing IoT for businesses.
The growth of connected devices and systems through Internet of Things (IoT) technology is mushrooming at a rapid pace. According to reports, IoT has the potential to revolutionise industries and generate immense value over the coming years. With the proliferation of this space, it has become imperative that security for these IoT-enabled infrastructures must be engineered at the design stage itself.
Cisco’s recent research of enterprise IT and business decision makers revealed that their top challenges with implementing IoT initiatives included security of business data, standardisation of IoT platforms and compatibility with business systems as well as the cost of implementation.
“Security and data privacy issues are critical elements that are being addressed. Equally, there are organisations and committees that are working hard on establishing IoT standards to ensure compatibility between all the different IoT components,” says Scott Manson, cybersecurity lead, Middle East and Africa, Cisco.
Fortinet’s regional channel manager Zacky Vaz says because of IoT’s critical and complex nature, security continues to be one of the largest opportunities for the channel.
“Partners who can plan, design, deploy, and optimise an integrated security offering are finding a growing demand for their skills. By tying traditional security appliances and emerging technologies together into an integrated security fabric, partners can help their customers collect and respond to more actionable intelligence, synchronise threat responses, and centralise the creation, distribution, and orchestration of their security management and analysis,” he adds.
Channel partners should look at examining multiple aspects in the IoT security realm such as device and data, service and application security.
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