technomical

Internet of Things (IoT) adoption is on the rise, new use cases are emerging by the minute, and there are success stories appearing daily. There is no doubt, this is fundamentally shifting how enterprises operates within itself and how it interacts with outside world. While IoT brings productivity improvement, efficiency and accuracy to take informed decisions, it also opens up many doors for potential intruders to gain insight into valuable data. Security and Privacy along with Job losses are some of the major concerns, during discussions. The success of IoT solution for a business problem lies in its granularity, and it comes with the risk of having many connected devices in a smaller footprint, sending vast amount of unstructured data over the network and to the central storage, on premises or cloud. Though we have standards and tools available to protect data in the cloud and core infrastructure (in spite of that hackers exploiting vulnerabilities is order of the day!), vas