IoT Device and Network Security

Protect your IoT
connections and
smart devices

Smart devices require smart security. Freeeway offers a complete IoT Device and Network Security solution that protects your infrastructure from threats — centrally managed, scalable, and ready to use.

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Peace of Mind with IoT Device & Network Security

As connectivity expands across industries, logistics, and smart cities, so do security risks. Only with a strong strategy around iot device security and iot network security can you prevent data loss, cyberattacks, or unauthorized access.

Freeeway gives you exactly that: a reliable solution that protects your technology, processes, and people — with a focus on iot device network security and network security for iot devices.

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Ways to Secure Your IoT Deployments

Encryption

Strong encryption is the foundation of any iot device security strategy. Freeeway uses modern protocols to secure your data — both in transit and at rest. It’s a key part of every effective iot device security solution.

Restrict Domains

Keep your device communication secure with domain whitelisting. Ensure your IoT devices only connect with authorized endpoints — a major boost to your network security for iot devices.

Use Leased Lines

With MPLS and leased line solutions, you can isolate your iot network security from public networks. This enhances uptime, reliability, and protection — ideal for mission-critical IoT applications.

Secure the Device

Device-level security is a core element of any iot device security concept. Our platform lets you monitor device status, apply updates, control access, and enforce policies — even remotely.

Bind SIM and Device

Prevent SIM misuse and theft with IMEI-based SIM binding. This function is essential for implementing advanced iot device security standards.

Our IoT Network Security Solutions

VPN

Secure your data with VPN tunnels. Freeeway’s VPN solutions protect your iot device network security across locations and geographies.

Open VPN

OpenVPN offers flexibility and compatibility — making it ideal for custom iot network security requirements.

Console Connect

Manage all your network connections from a central place. Console Connect gives you real-time visibility and flexible control over your iot device and network security landscape.

Our IoT Device Security Solutions

Mobile Device Management

Our Mobile Device Management (MDM) tool gives you full control over all connected devices. Features like app whitelisting, access control, and remote wipe are core to any effective iot device management strategy.

Afraid Your IoT SIM Cards Might Get Stolen?

No problem: With features like IMEI Lock, you prevent unauthorized SIM use — a powerful layer of iot device security in real-world deployments.

All part of a single, scalable suite

Our CMP is part of the my.Freeeway Suite, enabling seamless integration with:

  • SIM Management
  • Monetization tools
  • API for custom app integration
  • Cloud-to-cloud connectivity management

If You Want to Read More About IoT Security

Check out our IoT Security Guide to dive deeper into topics like iot device security concepts, industry standards, and emerging threats.

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FAQs

Common risks include weak encryption, poor authentication, insecure APIs, device fragmentation, and outdated firmware.

Look for encryption, device management capabilities, policy enforcement, logging, SIM-device binding, and secure update processes.

It’s crucial for securing distributed locations and maintaining regulatory compliance across networks.

Whenever data is transmitted over public networks or you need to securely connect multiple locations.

High availability, low latency, and complete network isolation — ideal for business-critical use cases.

We work with leading global carriers to provide high-performance, secure network connections.

The International Mobile Equipment Identity is a unique identifier used to bind a SIM card to a specific device.

You activate the SIM lock in our platform with one click. After that, the SIM will only work in your assigned device.

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Different Levels of Security

When talking about security, we usually distinguish between two areas: network security and securing the IoT device itself.

Network Security
is concerned about protecting the user data that are exchanged between the device and the application running in the back-end. Here we take measures that are commonly used in IP networks such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Open VPN and Leased Lines.

Device Security
is focused to secure the device as such, by restricting the applications that can be installed. Common solutions are Mobile Device Management (MDM) applications that enable the implementation of security policies to the device. A common use case is that when you develop your own Apps and you are using Android powered devices, you can restrict the device that only your validated and approved applications can be installed.

VPN Connection

Connecting from Freeeway Data Center to your Application.

Enabling a secure connection between the IoT device and your data center is usually done by utilizing a VPN, short for Virtual Private Network. The VPN requires compatible Firewalls on both end-points.

We operate a Fortigate firewall cluster for redundancy.
To be able to pass the entire user traffic to a VPN, we assign a dedicated IPv4 subnet range to your SIM cards. This subnet is configured to use the VPN connection between your data center and Mobile Network. The range of the subnet is aligned with the amount of SIM cards you are going to use.

The VPN tunnel may be setup with IPSec (Internet Security Protocol) in order to establish an encrypted communication on IP layer between the two Firewalls.

Open VPN Connection

Open VPN is an open-source virtual private network (VPN) technology that provides secure and encrypted communication over the internet. To enable an Open VPN, Freeeway handles the sign-up process with OpenVPN and you can download the Open VPN Client with the correct configuration pre-loaded in order to be installed at your premises.

An Open VPN connection is usually established by your application in order to retrieve device data. Soon the point-to-point connection is setup, the communication can be two-way.

The Open VPN Server is a cloud based service, whereas the Open VPN is installed at your application server.

MPLS Connection – Leased Lines

Bypass the internet with a private, secure leased line connection.

Freeeway offers a software defined interconnection service (SDI) to connect your IoT devices with the back-end application hosted in any data center around the world.

We use Console Connect is a product from PCCW Global, a leading telecommunications provider.

Console Connect network is a private MPLS based network connecting hyper-scalers, data centres and private business applications around the world. As an increasing amount of IoT applications is made available as cloud based services on public cloud environments, securing those connections from the remote IoT device is becoming an increasing challenge.

The user plane traffic is exchanged between the device and application via a dedicated port used by Freeeway within Console Connect’s SDI network. This port can be connected to any other port used by our clients to establish a secure, private data connection. The control-plane remains protected behind the firewalls.

Using Console Connect, we can offer secure connections from the device to your applications hosted in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, IBM Cloud and many more.

IMEI Locking

Improved security through locking the SIM card with the device.

In particular with IoT use cases, the devices may operate on remote locations outside of the control of the End-User. It often cannot be controlled whether the SIM card is removed from the device and used in another one, generating often fraudulent, high data usage.

To prevent such situations, the IMEI locking provides means that the SIM card is only operational in the device it is supposed to work. In case the SIM card is moved to another device, it will not be able to setup a data session.

Usually IMEI locks are implemented in the Mobile Network infrastructure, with the disadvantage that as soon as the lock gets in force, the End-User cannot release it anymore. Hence, in such cases, once locked, the SIM card is often locked forever.

Freeeway’s implementation of IMEI locking addresses this disadvantage by enabling an IMEI check during the setup of any data session in our own network infrastructure. Hence, when a locked SIM is moved back to the device where it should be operational, it seamlessly starts to connect again.

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