From InfoWorld: Nokia is taking the principle of "united we stand" to the Internet of things with a platform that can harness systems from multiple vendors for network-wide security.
The company's NetGuard Security Management Center is designed to monitor and control all the security components on a network. This will help carriers and other IoT service providers take a more holistic approach to preventing and responding to attacks.
Nokia will sell it to users of any brand of network. The company, once heavily invested in handsets, is now overwhelmingly a mobile infrastructure maker and is in the process of taking over network equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent. NetGuard is a security product, mostly software, that's separate from Nokia's underlying infrastructure offering. It will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month and is expected to ship later this year.
Concern about security is one of the biggest hurdles to IoT deployments. The prospect of having thousands of connected devices spread around factories, hospitals or highways makes some IT administrators worry about attacks that could spread throughout a network.
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