SOLUTION OVERVIEWSecure Device Management for theInternet of Things
Embracing and extending business applications begins with an identity-centricfocus for people, systems and things

31 million
digital identities
managed—proven scalability

The number of connected things in the world is expected
to exceed 41.5 billion by 2025.1 This doubles the number ofconnected devices from the initial 2020 estimate.2 OpenText
believes the volume of identities will grow in parallel. For amanufacturer, a connected product means building a better,

Data has nocompass, it goes
where it's told—
give your IoT dataclear direction
Visibility anddelegated device
administration forfine-grained control

more valuable or sticky product and unlocking new servicebased revenue models. For an owner/operator, a connectedasset means increasing operational efficiency and improving
services by optimizing use of the asset.
The challenge is the need to deliver trusted information to many mission-criticalstakeholders. It is essential for owners and operators of product ecosystems
to create and manage a network of physical objects that securely connect,communicate, collect data and intelligently distribute this data to create value.
Without secure device management, Internet of Things (IoT) data and the processes
that rely on it are at risk.

Stats Source:
1.Worldwide Global DataSphere IoT Device and Data Forecast, 2019-2023, May 2019.
2.Gartner, Leading the IoT: Gartner Insights on How to Lead in a Connected World, 2017.
https://www.gartner.com/imagesrv/books/iot/iotEbook_digital.pdf

A digital twin is adigital representationof a physical object,instantiated as asoftware object thatmirrors a unique physicalobject's characteristics
and its state.

Secure Device
Management for IoT

Business leaders understand that connecting the myriad of people, systems andthings that touch the value chain can have a profoundly positive impact. They also
know that piecing a solution together with multiple standalone components orbuilding it themselves would take a considerable amount of time and resources,
often more than they can spare, resulting in something that is error-prone,
challenging to manage and not easily scalable.
The solution is to give IoT the same attention and focus as other enterpriseapplications that drive innovation and enable timely business decisions.
A connected ecosystem of people, systems and things requires intimate knowledge
and expertise in each of these areas. It also requires the ability to purchase, codeand maintain a string of components. Like organizations, people, applications
and devices have a broad spectrum of attributes, and these entities and theirrelationships need to be carefully managed. Secure Device Management fromOpenText standardizes how these device identities are represented, ensuring thehighest level of integrity can be maintained at scale. Common entity definitions allow
for consistent identity relationship behavior, versioning and extensibility.

OpenText Business Network Cloud:Connect once, reach anything
As the basis of a transformational digital strategy, Information Management (IM)helps consolidate information internally across silos and applications and digitize
processes from end to end. Operations are more easily coordinated and streamlined
throughout an ecosystem with digital consumers at its hub. At every stage in a
product’s lifecycle, operations can be automated and analyzed for deeper insights
to improve efficiencies and output, as well as engagement with customers, partners
and suppliers. Empowered with an information advantage from IoT, organizations
can compete with agility, adapt to market changes and respond to opportunities forgrowth.

31+ million digital identities for proven scalability
Prevent cyber security
threats to operating
technology by securely
provisioning IoT devices

OpenText, the market leader in IM, understands digital and with the OpenText
Internet of Things Platform, is uniquely equipped to deliver solutions to enable andempower today’s agile enterprise. Managing more than 31 million digital identities,
the OpenText IoT Platform has the proven scalability to deliver the Secure Device
Management necessary for today’s complex ecosystems of people, systems andthings. It is this identity-centric approach to IoT and Secure Device Managementthat allows for the extension and integration of enterprise applications.

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Data has no compass, it goes where it's told—give your IoT
data clear direction
Managing, governing and auditing data, especially IoT data, is not easy—but getting
started can be. Secure Device Management from OpenText makes it possible
to create templates for devices, events, commands and even entire solutions.
Leveraging mobile device provisioning, field deployments of IoT devices is madeeasy and secure (see figure 1). These digital twins of physical objects make it easy
to visualize contextual data no matter where the device is located. Templates also
make it easy to onboard new devices quickly, catalog attributes for future use andallow users to instantiate entire solutions based on prior models that have proven tobe effective.

Gain visibility and delegated device administration forfine-grained controlFigure 1

As IoT deployments move from simple monitoring and failure alerts to more
complex and sophisticated solutions, such as digital twins, organizations needto adopt an identity-first approach to ensure the data and devices they areextending are not at risk. Failure to adequately attest and verify the IoT device
could lead to too much or too little access, hampering integration or possibly
exposing data or the device to cyberattacks.
The OpenText IoT Platform enables fine-grained control of IoT devices and dataas new capabilities are developed and deployed. An example of this can be seenthrough the design, operation and augmentation of a manufactured product using
a digital twin. As a product is in the design phase, data can be gathered, managed
and analyzed by the appropriate personnel as defined by the product owner. Thisdelegated device administration allows for specified data flows to be routed to where
it delivers the expected results without extending the data broadly. Clearly defining
the product’s IoT data paths ensures data access is not considered noise by theuninterested or a security risk that is accessible to the uninvited or unqualified.

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An identity-centric platform, designed with security
for scalability
OpenText’s identity-centric approach to IoT makes its IoT Platform unique and readyfor integration with enterprise applications. The OpenText IoT platform comes withadvanced, out-of-the-box identity and access management functionality, which
would otherwise have to be built from scratch, consuming development time andtaxing strained IT budgets.
This is possible through relationship and lifecycle management, enablingorganizations to register, authenticate and authorize all interactions across theentire lifecycle of people, systems and things. The ability to manage the identityof a device throughout its lifecycle is critical to the security across the entire
ecosystem. Managing the relationship that a device has with anyone or anything iswhat makes the OpenText IoT Platform uniquely capable of handling IoT initiatives
that require the highest level of security.

The Identity of Things Explained
Identity of Things (IDoT) assigns unique identifiers and metadata to things,
devices and objects.
Get the Identity of Things Explained guide to learn about the identity problem with IoT
and how a strong IDoT foundation identifies and manages IoT connections to solve it.
The Identity of Things (IDoT) extends traditional identity and access management(IAM) for the internet era. It identifies all IoT infrastructure components to ensure
secure connectivity and data trust from IoT devices.
The guide introduces IDoT and reveals how to add identity to IoT with chapters on:• The core capabilities of an identity-driven IoT platform• The Top 10 tips to consider when deploying identity management in IoT• Selecting the right provider for IDoT
Get the guide today

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Embracing and extending business applications through an
identity-centric approach provisioning people, systems and things

Secure Device
Management for IoT

Ecosystem
Integration for IoT

Unified Messaging
for IoT

Actionable
Insights for IoT

In addition
to Secusre
Device Management for IoT, the OpenText IoT Platform can also deliver Ecosystem Integration, Unified
Prevent cybersecurity
Integrate and deliver
Aggregate information fromLeverage AI/ML to monitor
Messagingflow
and Actionable
Insights.
threats across different
seamless information
disparate
systems to obtain
performance and maximize
industries by securely
across industrial
a single data feed foravailability of serviceable
provisioning devices
enterprise systems
analysis or archiveequipment/assets

Secure Device Management components
Mobile device provisioning

Delivers faster device on-boarding through mobile devices

Profile management

A reusable catalog of templates and rules to create and manage devices

Relationship and lifecycle management

Relationships between people, systems and things and the managementof their lifecycles

About OpenText
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