Microsoft takes holistic approach to IoT security concerns
Microsoft’s latest push takes an end-to-end approach to IoT security concerns, in a bid to encourage customers to build applications that incorporate connected devices.
Microsoft Azure Sphere, currently in preview, provides layered security for applications that rely on IoT devices at three levels: hardware, software and cloud. It puts Microsoft’s fingerprints on the supply chain in ways beyond what others here have done, and it serves as yet another reminder of the philosophical shift within Microsoft toward more openness.
Azure Sphere incorporates microcontrollers with real-time and application processors that include custom chips based on technology with which Microsoft securs its Xbox devices. There’s also a Linux-based OS — a first for Microsoft — to run software on these devices, and a cloud-based security service to protect communication to and between devices, detect threats and push updates