Security News > 2021 > September > The age of AI-powered devices at the edge

From factory machinery that can analyze its sensor data for predictive maintenance, to driverless cars that can collect and process real-time traffic data without the cloud, the fast-approaching age of smart devices at the edge promises plenty for users and businesses.

Let's dive deeper into the age of AI-powered devices at the edge and what it means for cybersecurity.

The relationship between edge and IoT. First, it's important to understand the benefits of the edge and IoT. Rather than sending data to be processed on external cloud servers or at central data centers - costing precious seconds and additional resources - the edge enables computation to take place on the device or in the local network.

Especially for use cases like healthcare monitoring and safety apps - where milliseconds count - edge computing and cheaper, more powerful AI-powered devices are emerging as perfect partners to process the massive amounts of information generated by connected devices.

This could create even more headaches for cybersecurity teams than storing data on a central database since they will need to divert that singular focus to multiple, standalone edge devices.

The more that powerful devices reside on the edge, the more intelligent these devices will grow, and the more that business leaders will opt for the edge instead of central servers.

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