July 31, 2018

Why choose Device Authority’s new IoT Security cloud service – aka KeyScaler as a Service (KSaaS)?

For small and medium sized enterprises, cloud-based software infrastructure delivered via SaaS model can provide a great cost-effective alternative to delivering effective security services to your business.

Modern IT and Business solutions are shifting away from embedding third party software components or using on-premise infrastructure in favour of SaaS solutions for obvious and compelling benefits. Software infrastructure vendors are transitioning from Enterprise licensing models to SaaS business models. New companies like Twilio, Okta… have proven this SaaS Platform models and most of the legacy enterprise software companies like Microsoft and Adobe have also joined the SaaS model.

Most enterprises have already embraced cloud and now look at digital transformation strategies with IoT initiatives. The security infrastructure space is also transitioning to SaaS delivery models e.g. Cloud IAM. IoT IAM is similar, a cloud-based SaaS model makes more sense for many use cases as most IoT applications and infrastructure are in the cloud.

Security is a big impediment for IoT adoption. IoT Security SaaS platforms provide enterprises and IoT project owners with the ability to deploy a wide range of applications to deliver maximum functionality and improve business value.

Implementing solutions quickly and effectively with no additional infrastructure software and hardware, consuming the service as required, freeing up dedicated resource who are responsible for usual software maintenance and upgrades.

With our KeyScaler as a Service (KSaaS) offering we provide our partners and customers with an easily deployable IoT security platform for their critical enterprise IoT use cases and business models. Our web-based platform is a great cost-effective way to deliver device trust, data trust and automation, without tying up hefty budgets and valuable resources.

KSaaS platform enables many PKI partners to deliver value added security services to their existing Enterprise and new IoT customers.

Easy implementation

With our multi-tenanted self-service SaaS platform, it has never been easier to set up, control, and remotely rotate device authentication and encryption keys. Our bulk provisioning tool can be used to save your team time in registering and managing devices security posture as required by your solution.

With our hosted environment, KSaaS, the Device Authority team will manage all updates and upgrades seamlessly, assuring the customer the latest release is in use.

Affordability

Unlike traditional software implementations, SaaS application have no infrastructure capital out lay or costly maintenance teams and software to keep up to date. KSaaS is a low monthly usage subscription, calculated by device connections, therefore customers will only ever pay for what they use. This operating expenditure model is a predictable low-cost platform, which CFO’s and management usually prefer – an ideal replacement for high-value, low-complexity applications hosted on premise. This licensing model also supports new and typical IoT business models.

Risk

As with most SaaS instances, our KeyScaler platform is being run in multiple locations at any single time, in an unforeseen event that a disaster occurs, an organisations’ business information is backed up in the cloud, and in turn the data is more secure. This functionality also eradicates the painstaking task to instigating automatic backups without user intervention and thus ensuring the integrity of your data.

Accessibility

KSaaS allows access to your IoT security management from anywhere, on any device and at any time. All you need is an internet connection and a web browser. Hosted in the cloud, KSaaS platform provides the administrator with administrative rights where ever you are, diminishing lead time to add or quarantine a device.

Designed for Partners

KSaaS allows partners to deliver KeyScaler based solutions without the overhead of infrastructure, dev ops and ongoing management costs of typical hosted environments. The additional features for partners are:

  • Multi-tenant model for customer enrollment and management
  • Branding support
  • Integrated billing and customer support
  • Quick time to integrate with KeyScaler through APIs

If you would like to learn more about how KSaaS can help your IoT use cases, please email sales@deviceauthority.com.

Visit our website to watch our animated video all about KeyScaler and KSaaS.

Ready to get started with KSaaS? Here’s a quick onboarding video to help guide you.

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Device Authority