The design choices you make not only affect the security of your solution, but also how difficult it will become to make the solution GDPR compliant. Centralized big data solutions are difficult to make compliant, while decentralized edge solutions are easier to make compliant. The reason is that decentralized solutions lend themselves naturally to the wills of the corresponding owners. For centralized solutions, you must build a lot of data protection mechanisms manually, to safeguard the privacy of its data subjects.
In this book, we have studied multiple protocols for use with the Internet of Things. Among these, XMPP provides the following several features that can help you build solutions that protect the privacy of your data subjects:
- The distributed, federated authentication and authorization model lends itself perfectly to making security decisions...