Identity and Access Management for the Internet of Things - Summary Guidance

Description:

The IoT introduces the need to manage exponentially more identities than existing IAM systems are

required to support. The security industry is seeing a paradigm shift whereby IAM is no longer solely

concerned with managing people but also managing the hundreds of thousands of “things” that may

be connected to a network. In many instances these things are connected intermittently and may be

required to communicate with other things, mobile devices and the backend infrastructure. Some

have begun to refer to this new identity ecosystem as the Identity of Things (IDoT). The IDoT refers to

the relationships between devices and humans, devices and devices, devices and application/services or

a human and an application/services.