You should now have gained an understanding of the scope of GRC and its possible implications when defining an IIoT architecture. In this chapter, we described some of the fundamental concepts in GRC and some of the many relevant international, domestic, and industry standards and certifications that might be considered as you define your architecture. We then briefly described how we would consider GRC in defining our supply chain optimization architecture used as an example in this book.
Existing standards and certifications continue to change over time. Many new standards for IIoT are under consideration, and industry consortia continue to be formed and converge upon new standards. This is particularly true, as the book was being published, in the areas of device discovery and management (and is part of the ongoing work defining the ISO / IEC 30141 standard for the...
