Pulse Secure’s IoT Effort a Big MSP Opportunity
… streamline machinery repairs and diminish costly production downtime through IT-managed secure access. It also secures factory networks by expanding its behavioral analytics to IoT devices, detecting anomalies and preventing their compromise.
“Manufacturing customers are using IoT to retool their factory floors, creating smart production lines that report their health and operational efficiency. One benefit of this approach is that customers can proactively perform preventive or predictive maintenance on machines to avoid costly production outages,” said Prakash Mana, Pulse Secure’s vice president of product management. “Our latest Pulse Secure release helps customers not only secure the smart factory floor, but it also helps streamline their maintenance activities by giving service technicians remote access to the equipment they maintain. Regardless if they are on the factory floor or in their remote office, our Zero Trust Security limits technician access to the equipment they maintain and requires that they use secured end-user devices to perform their work.
“PPS 9.0 enhances security for managed and unmanaged IoT devices with new behavioral analytics that utilize user and device traffic patterns to detect compromised IoT devices,” added Tolosa. “PPS 9.0 Behavioral Analytics builds baseline behavior profiles for IoT devices by collecting and correlating NetFlow, user and device data. Profiled base behavior is used to detect anomalous device activity, malware infections and domain-generation attacks. Once detected, alerts are automatically generated so that security teams can proactively isolate and mitigate the detected issue.”
Therein lies the opportunity for MSPs. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often lack the resources and expertise to properly secure IIoT and IoT platforms, meaning they must turn to a solution provider to take on the role of securing IoT. As more businesses adopt IoT platforms, the needs of security will increase. For MSPs, that can only be good news.
“Some of our customers operate among the manufacturing and transportation industry’s biggest and most distributed internet-connected device deployments. These IIoT networks help our customers gain real-time system diagnostics, reduced downtime and overall lower operational costs,” said Kirk Hanratty, vice president and chief technical officer at IT security and solutions company SynerComm. “For these and other customers, IIoT drives their business where assuring availability and secure access throughout an IIoT infrastructure is paramount. We have found Pulse Secure’s platform to offer our customers the usability, interoperability and reliability necessary to support large scale IIoT applications.”
Research house GrowthEnabler predicts that the IoT market will grow to $8.9 trillion in 2020, attaining a nearly 20 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
The latest features of Pulse Policy Secure 9.0 are available on physical or virtual Pulse Secure Appliances (PSA). Existing customers with PSA appliances under PPS subscription or software maintenance can readily upgrade at no charge. PPS on a virtual appliance with a three-year subscription starts at $31,000 MSRP for 500 concurrent connections. Pulse Connect Secure customers can cost-effectively extend their VPN investment to include network visibility, access control and mobile security with the Pulse Access Suite, the company said.
Pulse Secure will host a webinar on Jan. 8, 2019, for those interested in learning more on the topic.
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