Cloud Provider Microsoft Azure Rolls Out Security Center for IoT

Microsoft Azure today announced Azure Security Center for IoT, which provides hybrid cloud security management and threat protection capabilities to help its manufacturing customers monitor the security status of their Azure-connected Internet of Things devices used in industrial applications.The cloud provider’s new offering is designed to make it easier for partners and customers to build enterprise-grade industrial IoT solutions with open standards and ensure their security.“They want security more integrated into every layer, protecting data from different industrial processes and operations from the edge to the cloud,” Sam George, Microsoft Azure’s IoT director, said in a blog post yesterday. “They want to enable proof-of-concepts quickly to improve the pace of innovation and learning, and then to scale quickly and effectively. And they want to manage digital assets at scale, not dozens of devices and sensors.”