- Sanjay Rajashekar
5-Step Process for Managing Edge Assets

1. Gain Visibility
Gain visibility to all IoT Edge assets across Enterprise’s global operations
Characteristics like firmware, applications, location, IP etc.,
2. Establish Zero Trust Policies & Identities
Publish policies for Edge/IoT asset identity, access & management control – in alignment to Enterprise’s policies, standards & procedures
Review existing state, procedures & gaps
3. Secure Edge Assets
Secure IoT Edge device endpoints: configuration setting, vulnerabilities, performance telemetry
Create Identities, certificates & credentials
Weighted risk score
4. Roll-out Automation & Orchestration
Dashboards & reports
Automated workflows, alerts, remediation process
Continuous Auditing/Monitoring of Activities on Devices @ Edge
Orchestrating response back to other connected end points/systems
Integrate with Enterprise Workflows / Ticketing Systems
5. Resilient & Intelligent Operations
AI based Predictive Models for maintenance of the devices
Anomaly detection ML models in performance of the devices/systems
Anomaly detection ML models for misconfiguration
Anomaly detection in drift for zero trust security compliance