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The Internet of Things was never conceived with the needs of enterprise security in mind. Then again, no one expected most of the world to leave their offices overnight and begin working from home.

But now, in a world where nearly 75 per cent of global enterprises expect at least some of their employees to continue working from home permanently, the potential threat of unsecured consumer IoT devices is taking on a whole new dimension.

“Almost everybody already had some remote access capability,” says Jon Green, vice president and chief security technologist at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “It was just that only a minority of employees were using it. Now, it’s the majority. So it didn’t fundamentally change architectures all that much, but volume got much, much higher.”

Advances in hardware and software, infrastructure, and other technologies are driving greater use of virtual, augmented, and mixed realities for both work and play, laying the foundation for what experts call the human edge.

Augmented and virtual reality has been around for some time, but only more recently have they begun to push the boundaries of how we work and play. With the ever-evolving capabilities of our smartphones and advances in hardware and software, network infrastructure, and other technologies, AR and VR are at a tipping point, moving beyond gaming and entertainment toward mainstream use.

The processes used to build and deploy today’s applications have undergone a dramatic shift. Efforts that were once segregated and performed in isolation are being joined into a single process flow that incorporates both development and operations known as DevOps. DevOps a combination of Software Development and IT Operations bringing together its people, processes and technology with the aim to deliver software rapidly, frequently and reliably.

Powered by ‘software-driven infrastructure’ intelligent code, IT operations can be transformed to optimize and scale allocation of resources as needed all while maintaining economic control over limited IT budgets. The flexibility offered by a Software defined/driven Infrastructure makes it a cornerstone for the transition to hybrid IT, allowing customers to leverage the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing in a way that is tailored specifically for their business needs, as well as the requirements of their applications. Three main pillars of SDI include: