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Edge Computing: IoT Security at the Edge is Guaranteed to be Messy
“Edge products and services are powering the next wave of digital transformation. With the ability to place infrastructure and applications close to where data is generated and consumed, organizations of all types are looking to edge technology as a method of improving business agility and creating new customer experiences,” said Dave McCarthy, research director, Edge Strategies at IDC.
IDC expects that worldwide spending on edge computing will reach $250 billion in 2024, growing at about 12.5 percent annually. But while analysts expect edge computing to be the next IT trend, there ae important issues like complexity and security that will need to be solved.
In the area of Edge security, InfoQ outlines five areas of concern with existing IoT/Edge implementations:
- Secure Communication. Sending data from the cloud to remote devices currently has security issues.
- Privacy. IoT devices will need to comply with privacy policies. Keeping track of this across large numbers of remote devices will be challenging.
- Physical Security. Remote devices may become targets of theft and vandalism.
- Sprawl. Keeping track of and maintaining large number of remote devices can become a management headache.
- Complexity. Again the large number of remote devices make it difficult to track security risks at so many different points of entry.
David Linthicum, author and chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, wrote for InfoWorld that “security and governance are problems yet to be fully solved in the emerging world of edge computing. Hackers will likely infiltrate edge-based systems as points of access because the use of edge computing itself is well ahead of the use of edge computing security.”
