Endpoint security
To ensure the reliability of a hyperconnected and decentralized autonomous ecosystem, adequate security controls must be ingrained in every endpoint. Security must extend across the architecture, from the edge to the cloud. This requires arduous orchestration across various industry stakeholders. Certain industrial protocols have been updated to secure identities using digital certificates or crypto keys. Security vendors are working on tamper-proofing, hardware RoT, digital identity, key management, and so on. However, we may have to tread a long path before these proliferate across industrial deployments to a reasonable degree.
In Chapter 7, Secure Processes and Governance, we discussed how each phase of the product development life cycle needs to adhere to security and safety controls. The responsibility involves multifunctional stakeholders. System developers, integrators, OEMs, and architects all have a role in creating security built into device and network endpoints...
