One of the key challenges for many functions in organisations undergoing a digital transformation is what systems and processes to throw out, what to keep, and how to integrate old and new systems without causing disruption to business-as-usual, and without handicapping the business once integration is completed.
On the topic of IoT integration, Gartner defines integration as making independently designed applications and data work well together.
IoT integration means making the mix of new IoT devices, IoT data, IoT platforms and IoT applications — combined with IT assets (business applications, legacy data, mobile, and SaaS) — work well together in the context of implementing end-to-end IoT business solutions.
When it comes to IoT security, Ruggero Contu, research director at Gartner, acknowledges that IoT security is consistently referred to as a primary concern, and that most IoT security implementations have been planned, deployed and operated at the business-unit level, in cooperation with some IT departments to ensure the IT portions affected by the devices are sufficiently addressed
“However, coordination via common architecture or a consistent security strategy is all but absent, and vendor product and service selection remains largely ad hoc, based upon the device provider’s alliances with partners or the core system that the devices are enhancing or replacing,” Contu elaborated.
Speaking to FutureIoT, Itzik Feiglevitch, product manager for IoT Cyber Security at Check Point Software Technologies believes for organisations that already have pre-existing IoT elements into the operation – particularly old systems – upgrading these to the current level of innovation and making these secure is not difficult.
In this exclusive, he explained where the challenges remain and how organisations should go about smoothing the process of upgrading older systems to facilitate a more holistic security.
Click here to hear more of what Feiglevitch has to say about IoT in CIO’s guide to securing IoT
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