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Debasis Bisoi, Vice President & Head,
Manufacturing-Aerospace & Process
Industries Vertical, Tech Mahindra
Debasis Bisoi is the Vice President &
Head, Manufacturing-Aerospace &
Process Industries Vertical at Tech
Mahindra. He plays a central role in
the go-to-market strategy solution
for key customers. He also leads
digital transformation offerings for
manufacturing customers leveraging
emerging technologies like Cloud,
AI, Analytics, and IOT. He provides
leadership to key partners in the IOT and
cognitive space.
Building security into Internet of Things (IoT) devices has become a primary design
consideration because of the changing nature of these devices. Debasis Bisoi,
Vice President & Head, Manufacturing-Aerospace & Process Industries Vertical at
Tech Mahindra, says that, "It is actually the customers who want increasing compute
power in the devices, and that power opens new vulnerabilities."
It's only recently that security has become a major issue for solution designers. "With
the first wave of IoT devices, security wasn't something engineers originally thought
of as a critical aspect of the design," Bisoi says. "IoT devices were installed on the
factory floor to monitor machines and process performance, or they were embedded
in consumer goods. They were designed for stand-alone uses. They were isolated
from the enterprise network."
But that use case changed quickly as people recognized the value of the data IoT
devices were able to collect and the added product value that could come from
analyzing that data. To realize that value, data has to be taken out of the devices,
analyzed, and turned into meaningful information for users. Bisoi explains, "This
means that the devices now have to be connected to the internet and the enterprise
network. Suddenly, security became extremely important."
"When you do something as an afterthought, it becomes
extremely difficult to bake it back into the design."
To Build Secure IoT Devices, Security
Can't Be an Afterthought
