Why is security a concern at edge computing locations?

Security is a concern because edge locations often lack the physical security found in data centers or offices. These sites can be vulnerable to threats like theft or damage, emphasizing the need for data encryption.

What is a common solution to enhance security at the edge?

Encrypting data at the edge has become a prevalent solution. Given the vulnerability of these sites to physical threats, ensuring the data is encrypted adds a layer of protection against unauthorized access.

Why is updating software and hardware at the edge challenging?

Updating is difficult due to the numerous remote sites in edge computing. Deploying patches to address security issues across all these sites in a timely manner, especially without dedicated IT staff at each location, presents a significant challenge.

How can companies address the challenge of managing and monitoring multiple edge locations?

Centralized management tools and robust monitoring and reporting systems are essential. These tools enable companies to deploy updates, monitor for issues, and ensure consistent performance across numerous edge sites.

How does StorMagic's HyperConverged Software help improve security at edge locations?

StorMagic's HyperConverged Software helps protect data at the edge by encrypting it locally and minimizing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted to the cloud. It also provides centralized management of security policies, making it easier to enforce security best practices across multiple edge sites.

What are some specific security features of StorMagic's HyperConverged Software?

StorMagic's HyperConverged Software includes full disk encryption, role-based access control, audit logging, and security updates to protect data at rest, in transit, and from unauthorized access.

How can StorMagic's HyperConverged Software help organizations meet their security compliance requirements?

StorMagic's HyperConverged Software can help organizations meet security compliance requirements by providing a secure platform for storing and processing sensitive data, enabling organizations to implement security best practices, providing audit logging to track all activity on the storage system, and providing regular security updates to protect against known vulnerabilities.

Edge Computing: Key Security Concerns

Name: Edge Computing: Key Security Concerns
Uploaded: 2023-10-01T07:24:53-04:00
Duration: 2 min 35 s
Description: Bruce Kornfeld of StorMagic discusses the immense pressures IT personnel face in securing systems, especially given the vulnerabilities at the edge where physical security is lacking. Edge locations, ranging from factories to areas with many customers,...

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10/01/2023

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Dave Littman: Can you speak a little bit, too, about the challenge of security out at the edge? Bruce Kornfeld: Yeah, that's a good one in that, um, there's a lot that goes on from an IT perspective. Sometimes I think there's there's no way I'd want to do that job. There's a lot of pressure to figure out how do you protect your systems from bad things happening and I mean it's really impossible. Think about it. There's there's billion dollar companies that have that have outages and they have cyber attacks that they deal with. One way that we find customers worried about security, particularly at the edge, is that they have a new concern, which is they don't have physical security that you have in a data center or even an office. Edge locations can be a lot of customers there. They can be factories. They can be unsecure places where disk drives can disappear or a whole server can be stolen, et cetera. So, what we find is the lowest common denominator that we're hearing is I need to encrypt my data at the edge. And there's a lot of technologies that can do it. We can talk about StorMagic later, but encrypting data at the edge has become very, very important. Dave Littman: Okay, great, great answer. Ken Clipperton: Can I? I want to add on to that. Go ahead. In terms of security things, but also as a from an IT perspective, how do a big exposure is around. It's hardware and software that has not been patched. I mean, the main reason for patches coming out is to address security issues. But I've got hundreds of, even 10 or 11 sites, but I've got all these sites out there. How do I deploy those patches to keep that infrastructure up-to-date against these known vulnerabilities? I keep seeing these reports of, yes, this was fixed 18 months ago, says the provider, but the patch wasn't rolled out. How do I get that out there if I'm managing these? Bruce Kornfeld: That's a great that's a great point. Think about it. If you're in a data center environment and you have hundreds of servers, there are skilled IT technicians. That's their job. When you're at the edge, you can have hundreds, we have customers that have thousands of sites and maintaining and updating firmware and software is really hard and that's where the whole centralized management comes in and tools. But yeah, you're absolutely right. It is a bigger problem at the edge than in the data center for sure. Ken Clipperton: And of course then you have to have some kind of monitoring and reporting in place so that, you know, your folks that can resolve issues know that issues are occurring. But those are all challenges about getting managing lots and lots of locations.

Bruce Kornfeld of StorMagic highlights the vulnerabilities in edge computing due to the lack of physical security, emphasizing the need for data encryption. Ken Clipperton of DCIG points out another challenge: keeping software and hardware updated with security patches. With numerous remote sites, ensuring timely patch deployment is complex. Bruce concurs, noting the difference between centralized data centers with dedicated IT teams and edge sites, which can number in the thousands for some companies. The conversation underscores the importance of centralized management and consistent monitoring to manage and safeguard myriad edge locations.

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