FEATURE: IOT
Compromises
Haritha Ramachandran, Associate
Director, Digital Transformation
Practice at Frost & Sullivan
across traditional sectors such as
manufacturing are utilised, and the
need to improve the life cycle of the
asset through targeted maintenance
support and monitoring
• Government driven initiatives
to go smart. This includes smart
cities driven by the pillars of smart
government, smart energy, smart
transportation, smart citizens, smart
education, smart health, smart
security and smart buildings. These
have been part of mega projects
across UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Qatar, both from a greenfield and
brownfield project perspective
• Customer experience management
within retail, banking and telecom
has also been a pervasive driver
Frost & Sullivan’s Ramachandran also
lists the top three regional inhibitors
from an adoption standpoint:
• The lack of security has been a
question mark amongst many
decision makers. This ties into the
need to move to the cloud to store
the data generated
• The lack of global standards with
reference to security, interoperability
as well as the customised needs of
the region, including the need for
a device to withstand extreme
heat, are still question marks that
inhibit adoption
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Morten Illum is Vice President of
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• Lack of regulations from a cloud,
security and IoT standpoint specific
to the GCC as a region or each
country is definitely lacking and
limiting installations to simpler ones
such as basic fleet management or
asset tracking and management
“A new study
conducted by
Cisco shows
that 60% of IoT
initiatives stall
at the proof of
concept stage
and only 26%
of companies
have had an IoT
initiative that
they considered
a complete
success.”
“From 3,100 companies surveyed by HPE
Aruba, 84% reported experiencing an
IoT-related breach. Across industries like
healthcare, government, manufacturing
and retail, there are literally thousands
of use cases that are relying on IoT.
Each one demands a different type of
device, potentially a different security
protocol, and this creates endless
threats. We need to be able to see these
devices, and where they are connecting,
to be able to protect them,” says Jose
Vasco, Regional Director, MEMA at
Aruba HPE. Below is a top four list of
industries that have suffered the most
IoT-related breaches.
Healthcare
89% have suffered an IoT related
security breach. By 2019, 87% of
healthcare organisations will have
adopted IoT technology. Patient
monitors and X-ray imaging devices are
some of the most-used IoT devices, to
create services like location tracking and
remote control of devices. Knowing the
location of medical devices is a huge
benefit to patient wellbeing, but security
fears cast a big shadow. Nearly half
49%, of healthcare companies reported
malware issues on their devices, and
39% reported that human error led to
an IoT-related security breach.
Government
85% have suffered an IoT related
security breach. When adding new
elements to a city infrastructure,
governments must balance old and
new technology. In the case of IoT, it is
about balancing legacy technology with
a secure network to create the smart
city, and 49% of government workers
find this a particular challenge.
Governments are further behind in
their adoption of IoT than some
industries; 35% of IT decision
makers within government roles
claim that leadership has little or no
understanding of IoT. This lack of
understanding, with limitations of
legacy technology within cities and
security risks associated with IoT
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