IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Internet of Things (IoT) market, announced that leading IoT Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider Afero has been selected as winner of the “IoT Security Platform of the Year” award in the 8th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program.
Afero’s PaaS for IoT has been designed with enterprise-grade security and privacy as a core tenet. Afero was the first to build a comprehensive and managed IoT platform on a foundation of enterprise-grade cryptography for all IoT devices, including constrained devices like lightbulbs. This fundamental and uncompromising view of security extends through the entire supply chain and is backed by a hardware root of trust. This enables end-to-end security where all devices use mutually authenticated VPN-like tunneling.
All Afero modules are securely provisioned at the factory with cryptographic key material, enabling Afero to provide a level of security and privacy that others just can not do. In addition, Afero-built devices only talk out to the Afero cloud, meaning that they have no network-level attack surface. To ensure Afero devices and services are secure, Afero is routinely tested by third party pen testers and testing labs, red-team experts, and former government agency professionals.
“Security is not just a feature for Afero, it’s an intrinsic quality of their fast and secure sensor-to-cloud IoT platform. Organizations and consumers need products and solutions that are secure by design, using trusted building blocks,“ said Steve Johansson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. “Congratulations to Afero, our ‘IoT Security Platform of the Year!’ By realizing the next wave of IoT products can not be developed using the same approach as securing traditional computing devices, Afero ensures leading-edge security practices that enable consumers to be confident using their connected products.”
The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis of the global Internet of Things industry and then recognize the ‘breakthrough’ innovators, leaders and visionaries in a broad range of IoT categories, including Industrial and Enterprise IoT, Smart City technology, IoT Security, Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, and many more. This year’s program attracted thousands of nominations from companies all over the world.
“Afero enables the world’s connected devices to be smart and secure,” said Afero CEO and co-founder Joe Britt. ”We built our foundation on security, data privacy, simplicity and ease of use so that our IoT PaaS would scale for the mass market. This award from IoT Breakthrough is validation of our mission to provide great user experiences for devices that are secure by design.”
SOURCE: Businesswire