Data security

When a large number of devices are connected to the internet, they generate huge volumes of valuable data. Data such as medical information, bank-related information, or maybe information that is important to an organization and nation can be of personal interest to someone. Most times, this data is stored in less secured storage systems and human-readable formats, without any encryption or digital signatures. This makes the data easily available to unwanted people and poses a huge risk to a person and organization.

The solution is that all user and sensor data generated by the IoT system should be stored in a highly secured data storage system, which should be guarded by firewalls, should be inside private networks, and should ...

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