Security News > 2022 > July > At the edge, nobody can hear your IoT devices scream …

"This sector has a lot of proprietary IoT and industrial automation at the edge but it's not very easy for them to manage. Now they're evolving the application they got from equipment makers such as ABB, Bosch, or Siemens to run on a mainstream compute platform."

Hood calls this the industrial 'device edge', an incarnation of edge computing in which large numbers of devices are connected directly to local computing resources rather than having to backhaul traffic to distant datacenters.

Hood says the challenge of edge computing begins with the fact that the devices themselves are exposed on several levels.

The biggest worry is simply that the proliferation of devices makes it more likely that an edge device will be misconfigured or left unpatched, which punches small holes into the network.

Red Hat's answer to this issue is the Ansible Automation Platform, which makes it possible to build repeatable processes across all environments, including the central cloud or datacenter or edge devices.

Instead, SBB turned to Red Hat's Ansible automation which has allowed the service to manage IoT devices and edge servers centrally without having to send technicians to visit each train and edge server one at a time.

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