{"id":31814,"date":"2018-12-11T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=31814"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T12:13:08","slug":"servicenow-expert-managing-iot-data-securely-and-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2018\/12\/11\/servicenow-expert-managing-iot-data-securely-and-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"ServiceNow expert: Managing IoT data securely and successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there is a widespread acceptance that the IoT will change everything within a decade, there is little appreciation about how it can impact businesses right now. Chris Pope, VP of Innovation, ServiceNow, tells us that with too many IoT devices developed without adequate security, CIOs need to not only form a strategy to safely lock down their IoT data but also drive commercial action from the information produced.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019ve been living under a disconnected rock, you\u2019ll know that the Internet of Things (IoT) has developed to become a new substrate layer of web-driven intelligence that is helping to connect our world. Fueled by data from sensors, cameras and all manner of gyroscopes and accelerometers, IoT gives us a new power to monitor, track, analyse and act upon the data being created in the world around us.<\/p>\n

But you already knew that part. The issue at hand for us now is what happens next in the Internet of Things. We need to focus on how we build the infrastructure that serves the IoT and how we create the higher-level technology fabric that feeds off it.<\/p>\n

A crucial factor for organisations looking to channel IoT is the need to create new business models. New operational frameworks must be customised to the needs and requirements of the machines and people populating the IoT ecosystem.<\/p>\n

We have reached a few watershed moments with IoT already. We know that the initial years saw too many products developed with inadequate – or non-existent – security provisioning. The security debate will always be there, but services have now come to the fore in terms of how we lock down data in the IoT.<\/p>\n

People – users and sometimes also wearers of technology – will now be central to the debate going forward. The fact that people will be carrying wearables so much more means we will know a lot more about the status of every individual in every situation.<\/p>\n

A more \u2018consumable\u2019 future<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s think of possible future scenarios. For example, there may never be a standard health insurance policy needed anymore, because insurers will know more about people from the get-go. Users will really just pay for what they consume, leading us to a more \u2018consumable\u2019 future.<\/p>\n

But none of these advancements are possible unless we have access to a system of action that allows us to leverage the information coming out of the IoT in the first place. To put it another way, all the IoT \u2018things\u2019 are useless unless you can drive action from the information and alerts that they generate.<\/p>\n

As we look to use this new system of action, we can point it towards the specific components of IoT that we are actually interested in. If you think about all the devices and data out there as the IoT universe, then there\u2019s a tighter orbit around your own organisation\u2019s personal IoT universe.<\/p>\n

These are the \u2018things\u2019 and the data that matter to you. Once you focus in on these elements, you can map your desired business outcomes against the IoT through an intelligently architected approach.<\/p>\n

Defining desired outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The term \u2018desired outcomes\u2019 might sound a little strange, but it\u2019s easy to put them into context.
\nFrom a health-tracking wearables standpoint, a user would typically have a variety of desired outcomes including, for example, a target heart rate, blood pressure, weight and so on. Any diversion from desired outcomes might cause the user to change their exercise regime, alter their diet and perhaps ultimately visit the doctor.<\/p>\n

Cars are another good example – desired outcomes for car use would include fuel consumption per gallon, performance and the need for week-to-week maintenance.<\/p>\n

We can go further with automobiles because they have become smart enough to track whether we are a safe driver based upon our behaviour on the road. In the EU for example, if a driver shares their streamed dash cam data with an insurance company which recognises that driver\u2019s safety, then the driver may be rewarded with a lower insurance premium.<\/p>\n

From outcomes to systems of action<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this last example, the scope of our desired outcomes has widened, but we will fail to benefit from them unless a system of action is put in to place, in this case to provide the service of a lower premium. Without the system of action, the driver drives safely, the dash cam records it and sends the data onward, the insurance company gets to identify safe drivers and perhaps also accident blackspots, but the safe driver gets no reward.<\/p>\n

I think this \u2018ability to act now\u2019 element of how we interact with IoT data was brilliantly expressed by Chris Mazzei, in his role as EY Global Innovation Technologies Leader and Global Chief Analytics Officer. <\/em>He said: \u201cThere is an acceptance that AI will change everything in 10 years\u2019 time, but little appreciation of how it could, and should, impact businesses right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Business model shake-up<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, as we move forward and more and more devices become connected, we are seeing the same challenges that have been experienced across enterprise IT now appearing in the world of IoT, especially Industrial IoT.<\/p>\n

This reality is especially prevalent if we look at how we want to manage the functionality of IoT devices. We need to be able to understand how devices are performing relative to each other while also providing the requisite level of security for each device. This isn\u2019t about just managing the break-fix elements of the IoT – it is about analysing the data to optimise business processes and drive new business models.<\/p>\n

There are huge data lakes created by IoT and we know that. As businesses become truly digital, they will discover that they know more clearly what they want to get from the universe of data that is being created, enabling them to more intelligently ask the right questions in the first place.<\/p>\n

They will know what the desired outcomes are and thus what questions to ask to drive their system of action into decision-making, paving the way for a truly \u2018consumable\u2019 IoT from end to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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