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'Connected Everything: Taking the I out of IoT'; New Research Shows Security Concerns Driving Global Adoption of Private Networks in Enterprise IoT DeploymentSyniverse, the world's most connected company, today announced the findings of research conducted by Omdia into the concerns and opportunities seen by enterprises around internet of things (IoT) implementation. Most companies see strong business drivers to adopt IoT as part of a broader digital transformation process. Improved efficiency and productivity, improved product/service quality, and improved customer retention and experience ranked highest as objectives. Implementation concerns, particularly around security, remain. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200527005881/en/ Security is viewed as a major concern for enterprises' IoT integration. (Graphic: Business Wire) The study was conducted across 200 enterprise executives in North America and Europe in several key vertical industries already using or in the process of deploying IoT, including financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and hospitality.
Security concerns drive IoT deployments toward private networks
Indeed, when asked about how IoT security concerns are being tackled, 50% of respondents cited putting IoT devices on their own private networks. Regardless of their motivation, 97% are either considering, or currently using, a private network for their IoT deployments.
The need for specialist support
The research also identified integration as a top issue, following only security concerns as the biggest challenges to IoT adoption in the enterprise:
Since security ranks high on the list of enterprises' IoT concerns, providing technical solutions, consulting services and transparent approaches to IoT security will be key if enterprises are to more fully embrace IoT.
Priorities vary by industry
On being asked which IoT applications are being deployed now, connected security dominates across the board at enterprises with 70% adoption. Other common IoT applications already being deployed are worker and workplace safety applications and remote payment terminals, depending on the industry. For example:
Expansion into other uses cases such as asset monitoring, smart building and energy management applications, and predictive maintenance are being widely considered for future deployment. Representatives from Syniverse (News - Alert) and IoT Now will host a live webinar at 11 a.m. (EDT) on June 4 and will highlight findings of this study, explore industry focused IoT use cases, and take questions from the audience. To learn more about the webinar, go here. To download the full research report, "Connected Everything: Taking the I out of IoT," go here. CLICK TO TWEET: New research from @Syniverse & @Omdia show strong business cases attract #enterprises to adopt #IoT more broadly; deployment challenges remain. #syniverse #private networks. https://bit.ly/34CGwsc Supporting Quotes
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