Organizations often deploy edge systems where security is difficult or impossible to ensure, such as on factory floors or on top of communication towers where it would be too dangerous or expensive to station security guards and where controlling physical access is challenging. Some edge systems may be locked inside a cabinet or hidden away in hard-to-access places, but these protections are not ideal or reliably secure. As a result, the threat landscape for edge deployments is greater than traditional data center deployments of enterprise information assets. The absence of IT or other security protecting resources like camera surveillance or physical guards protecting the assets at these locations brings additional challenges such as physical access, remote access, and disconnected or loosely connected scenarios.
In manufacturing, there is an electrical cabinet in many cases, but workers and service staff usually have unrestricted access to it and therefore its exposure is a security threat.
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