Description
IoT authentication market solutions include verification, preferences, and monitoring resource usage. This is typically referred to as Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) solutions important for device, data, and network security and privacy. Regarding data privacy and security, IoT AAA solutions are important in support of IoT data management including access and management with a Data as a Service (DaaS) model, which is defined as any service offered wherein users can access vendor provided databases or host their own databases on vendor managed systems.
IoT Authentication Market Dynamics
The introduction of 5G brings an entirely new approach to identity management, authentication, and authorization by way of Unified Data Management (UDM), which represents the ability to manage network user data in a single, centralized network element. The UDM function is similar to how data is managed in LTE with the IMS Home Subscriber Server (HSS). However, UDM takes the subscriber data management market to an entirely new level as, unlike the HSS, the UDM function is cloud-native, and therefore provides a more flexible and scalable environment.
This has implications beyond merely the IoT authentication market as UDM also stores subscription information and may be paired with the User Data Repository (UDR) function, which also stores user data such as customer profile information. In terms of network topology, UDM is located in the control plane, utilizing microservices for control plane to user plane communications. This enables identity management, authentication and authorization for any end-user devices for which there is subscription with a network operator.
IoT Data as a Service (IoTDaaS) offers convenient and cost-effective solutions to enterprises of various sizes and domain. IoTDaaS constitutes retrieving, storing and analyzing information and provide customer either of the three or integrated service package depending on the budget and the requirement. This portion of the IoT authentication market will be a key part of the IoT managed data services market, which includes acquiring (capturing and/or licensing), storing, processing, and distributing IoT data, anticipated to become a multi-billion-dollar business by 2025.
IoT authentication market solutions are also important in support of the “things” involved in IoT, which vary from devices used to detect, actuate, signal, engage, and more. IoT things also involve everything from gateways, modules, and sensors to hardware and embedded software within products and equipment and other consumer, enterprise, and industrial assets. The IoT ecosystem could easily become highly cumbersome with so many different “things” to consider as part of IoT provisioning, activation, administration and other management functions.
Understand the Role and Importance of Identity Mediation in the IoT Authentication Market
More specifically, IoT authentication market solutions are important in support of IoT device management in concert with the expanding scope of devices by volume, type, purpose, role and importance. Authentication ensures proper IoT device security, which goes beyond access (to device, network/system, etc.) and includes data security/privacy as well as securing proper decisions (e.g. ensuring that autonomous processes are carried forth in a manner that is not detrimental).
One of the important issues that must be addressed within the IoT authentication market is the need to identify whether or not a given signal or message has come from a proxy server. Identification and authentication can also be used to prevent swarm attacks against IoT devices, systems and networks. Accordingly, robust solutions will carefully integrate and leverage IoT directories, registry data and related database services. It is also important to understand how IoT authentication relates to the 5G security market.
Release 16 of the 5G standards addressed certain IoT authentication market needs relative to both public networks and the private wireless market (also known as Non-Public Networks or NPN). In the case of NPN, there are specific mechanisms for user equipment that do not have a USIM card, and for those that do, there are an authentication and key agreement protocols and procedures.
This is important in general for 5G, but particularly important for the IoT authentication market, and especially critical for the 5G network slicing market as devices must be authenticated and authorized for specific slice allocations. More specifically, the 5G Services Based Architecture (SBA) supports Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization (NSSAA). The ability to separate authentication and authorization on a per-slice basis is realized through 5G SBA through NSSAA triggering by subscription information found in UDM and/or network operator policy management.
IoT Authentication Market Report
This report assesses the market for IoT authentication and authorization by technology, solutions, and industry verticals with forecasts from 2020 to 2025. The report analyzes IoT authentication an authorization market drivers and opportunities. The report also assesses IoT authentication and authorization infrastructure requirements. People interested in this report will also be interested in the Mind Commerce IoT things management as well as the cybersecurity market report.