IoT devices are critical to a wide range of use cases in the enterprise, but these endpoints can be difficult to update, manage and secure without the right approach and set of tools.
Many organizations already deploy thousands -- sometimes hundreds of thousands -- of sensors, surveillance cameras, access control systems or energy and infrastructure systems. Responsibility for these devices is costly and presents an overwhelming management and security challenge for IT and physical security teams.
The first major hurdle IT teams face when managing and securing IoT devices is that they must manually complete device maintenance, monitoring and security compliance; in the long term, this proves to be costly and inefficient. Often enterprises have multiple fleets of disparate IoT devices from different vendors, making them challenging to manage. Many of the devices are physically remote or difficult to access. Their operating commands and maintenance schedules vary. At a large scale, organizations struggle to monitor and control even basics such as firmware updates and password rotations.
Continue reading: https://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/post/4-steps-IT-can-take-to-manage-the-IoT-device-explosion
Many organizations already deploy thousands -- sometimes hundreds of thousands -- of sensors, surveillance cameras, access control systems or energy and infrastructure systems. Responsibility for these devices is costly and presents an overwhelming management and security challenge for IT and physical security teams.
The first major hurdle IT teams face when managing and securing IoT devices is that they must manually complete device maintenance, monitoring and security compliance; in the long term, this proves to be costly and inefficient. Often enterprises have multiple fleets of disparate IoT devices from different vendors, making them challenging to manage. Many of the devices are physically remote or difficult to access. Their operating commands and maintenance schedules vary. At a large scale, organizations struggle to monitor and control even basics such as firmware updates and password rotations.
Continue reading: https://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/post/4-steps-IT-can-take-to-manage-the-IoT-device-explosion
