As the need for real-time insights closer to the point of IoT data generation grows, IT leaders responsible for IT/OT alignment face an increasing urgency to deploy decentralized, scalable and secure computing technologies at the edge of data center, cloud and campus networks.

Key Findings

• In many mission-critical verticals, deployment environments, such as shipping and civil infrastructure, are challenging for analytics because they are operated in locations where limited network connectivity makes cloud-centric architectures unviable.
• Computational resources in industrial settings are fragmented, isolated, manually managed and unsecure.

• Many existing edge security solutions require multiple products from multiple vendors with high dependence on signatures and high rates of false positives when identifying threats. The solutions are also resource-intensive.