IOTech, the edge software company, is partnering with leading security company RSA to add IoT
security monitoring technology to its Edge Xpert software platform.
IOTech's Edge
Xpert is a commercial and fully supported version of EdgeX Foundry, the world's leading ecosystem-enabled open platform
for the IoT edge.
RSA IoT Security Monitor is designed to
provide a unified approach to managing digital risk with IoT Gateways running
EdgeX implementations, and provides a valuable and complementary addition to
IOTech's suite of edge software products.
"We're
delighted to be collaborating with RSA. IoT security represents an important
area that has not been adequately addressed up to this point," said Keith
Steele, CEO of IOTech. "The addition of
RSA IoT Security Monitor to our edge software stack is an important step to
reassure our users that they can deploy their IoT systems with confidence, and
that their devices are secure."
As IoT
adoption continues to gather momentum, attacks leveraging IoT devices such as
IoT Gateways and other types of devices will only continue to grow. The entire IoT environment can be monitored in a scalable
way by leveraging visibility collected - not
from the devices themselves, but from edge computing endpoints to which those
devices connect.
RSA IoT
Security Monitor is a cloud-based service that monitors data from edge devices
to identify unexpected or malicious behavior. It leverages threat intelligence,
in conjunction with statistical analysis and machine learning, to create
prioritized alerts for investigation via a web interface or forwarded to
security tools such as RSA NetWitness Platform.
As an RSA
Ready Technology Partner, IOTech provides certified interoperability with RSA
IoT Security Monitor. As a further benefit, IOTech Edge Xpert will embed the
RSA IoT Security Monitor collector as part of its Edge Xpert IoT edge platform
software, where it can be deployed and managed within the platform. The
security monitoring functionality can be activated with a license from RSA.
"RSA is
pleased to collaborate with IOTech to enable the easy integration of security
into IoT deployments," said Zulfikar Ramzan, Chief Digital Officer at RSA.
"IOTech is a key innovator and industry leader that provides an integrated IoT
platform, one which now includes security from RSA. This partnership provides a
standardized, open and secure platform for edge computing."