Exploring cloud service provider IoT offerings

Cloud-based security offerings, also called security-as-a-service (SECaaS), represent a rapidly growing cloud-enabled business, and these offerings are ripe for supporting the IoT. Not only are SECaaS offerings scalable, but they also help organizations cope with the ever-worsening, limited supply of security engineering resources. Most companies today lack the people and knowledge needed to perform security integration, keep up with the latest security threats, architect security operations centers, and perform security monitoring. CSPs offer some solutions.

AWS IoT

Amazon is poised to be a leading enabler of cloud-based IoT services, and in many cases will be the IoT cloud service provider's cloud provider. In Amazon's own words:

"AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process...