3. Adopt new approaches to security that meet modern environments
Another core principle of edge computing is that it also enables a more distributed approach to application logic and/or business logic. The logic is moved to the edge where it is needed, rather than being tied to a centralized location such as a traditional data center or cloud.
Alot of talk about edge security, just like in the early days of cloud computing. While security should always be a priority, looking at edge architectures solely from a risk perspective misses a significant opportunity: edge architectures can actually improve security.
“By moving authorization and access control logic to canada mobile database edge, enterprises gain the ability to standardize authorization logic across applications while offloading individual applications,” explains Josh Johnson, enterprise architect at Akamai.
This is especially important for API traffic. “In most enterprises, different APIs are managed by many separate teams and departments, hosted in disparate data centers, and API consumers are located all over the world,” says Johnson. “To get around this, enterprises can use edge computing to standardize access control logic regardless of the location of users and applications, meaning there are no more performance sacrifices.”
A security-focused edge architecture can also limit the potential “network effect” of an incident by restricting problematic traffic to a specific point (and preventing the breach from spreading throughout the entire cloud environment or data center).
Potential security benefits may also encourage additional performance-oriented architectural decisions.