While many IoT platform vendors claim their functionality enables easy device enrollments and security management, most platforms provide open and flexible interfaces and shift the responsibility to customers to adopt the right integration and policies as per their application requirements. While there are some home-grown implementations by platform vendors, many industry experts and analysts have talked about the need for IoT IAM functionality, substantially different from traditional IAM.
For Microsoft, their customers and partners, Device Authority presents to the market a Security Suite that enables their end to end service offerings with enhanced security, and to accelerate, optimize and leverage their investments in their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments.