Automating Industrial IoT Security

Industrial IoT is the largest IoT opportunity. At Microsoft, we serve this vertical by offering an Industrial IoT Cloud Platform Reference Architecture, which we have conveniently bundled into an open-source Azure IoT Suite solution called Connected Factory and launched it at HMI 2017 a year ago.

 

Since then, we continued our collaboration with the OPC Foundation, the non-profit organization developing the OPC UA Industrial Interoperability Standard, and added many new open-source contributions to their Github page, further extending our lead as the largest contributor of open-source software to the OPC Foundation by a factor of 10. We have also successfully certified the open-source, cross-platform .Net Standard OPC UA reference stack for compliance. This was a crucial step in our open-source OPC UA journey as Connected Factory uses this stack internally. We also managed to reduce the monthly Azure consumption cost of Connected Factory due to the new pricing structure of Azure IoT Hub recently announced.

 

Although Connected Factory is extremely popular with both machine builders and manufacturers, we hear from time to time that it is still difficult to connect real machines to it and at the same time make these machines secure for IoT applications. Therefore, we have added several new modules and services to Connected Factory, which make connectivity and security fully automatic! We are pleased to announce that we are launching these new modules and services at HMI this year.

 

 

Read about it in the Azure blog.