Azure IoT Edge which recently became generally available, designs in security from the ground up with avenues for custom security hardening. Security hardening entails additional security measures for given deployments in response to perceived higher threats like physical accessibility of devices by malicious actors. But how do stakeholders go about with security hardening?
The nature of IoT, Azure IoT Edge included, is such that security threats differ between products and deployments, and solutions are seldom one size fits all. There’s always the need to balance security investments with protection goals and missing this balance results in either inadequate protection or overspending. One very important axis towards achieving this balance is to assess the risks on the IoT device and invest in adequate secure silicon hardware technologies like hardware security modules (HSM) for mitigation. HSM products widely vary in capabilities and cost with some costing orders of magnitude more than others. Rather than coerce the use of one HSM for security hardening, Azure IoT Edge takes a more customizing and accommodating approach.
Read about it in the Azure blog.