Beginning Azure IoT Edge Computing: Extending the Cloud to the Intelligent Edge

© David Jensen 2019

David JensenBeginning Azure IoT Edge Computinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4536-1_8

8. Azure IoT Edge Security

David Jensen¹ 

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Powder Springs, GA, USA

 

Don’t be misled by this chapter. You might be tempted to think that because this chapter is one of the last chapters in the book, it’s an add-on topic to the Azure IoT Edge platform. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, many of the other chapters provide the context necessary to properly understand the way Azure IoT Edge is secured. Security is the core of Azure IoT Edge. All of the edge runtime components we have discussed previously are all managed by the edge security service. No code is installed or started on an edge device without first being initiated ...