Security News > 2020 > March > Tech Companies Partner to Securely Connect IoT to Cloud
With billions of IoT devices transferring data to and from the cloud, ensuring security requires both the IoT cloud service and the device to trust the received data.
Mutual authentication ensures that the device and the cloud trust each other, but the fragmentation of the IoT market means that security services scalability and duplication are very limited.
Through this partnership, the SIM or eSIM inside an IoT device is automatically and securely provisioned, as long as they have Thales's IoT SAFE application on them.
The trusted communication with the cloud is ensured through digital certificates created and stored in the SIM/eSIM. Microsoft's contribution to the IoT SAFE solution includes Azure IoT Hub, Azure Stream Analytics, Cosmos DB, and Power BI services.
"The collaborative effort between these international organizations demonstrates the importance of simplifying IoT security without compromise. By bringing together each IoT technology layer; device, software, network and cloud, we can deliver a more streamlined approach to IoT security. This allows customers and partners to focus on creating business value from their solutions while ensuring their IoT deployments remain secure," said Tony Shakib, general manager of Azure IoT Business Acceleration at Microsoft.