Cloud security is not a one-time solution. It has to align and persist throughout the active lifespan of an IIoT deployment, involving development, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and other secure DevOps functions, design re-engineering, and so on.
Prevention and response to malicious activities is vital. However, incidents leading to outages do occur, sometimes even due to natural factors such as flood and fire. In an era of accelerated deployment cycles, lack of data center availability following an incident is also a serious reliability issue. Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is an essential component of any deployment.
To address business continuity, certain CSPs have out-of-the-box high availability solutions. To mitigate single points of failure, as common high availability strategies, CSPs provision load balancing between their geographically separated data...
