1. Edge Raptor Login
2. Edge Raptor Security

The Edge Raptor™ contains various security components. The purpose of this document is to highlight important security components and to act as an entry point for a security discussion at a later stage. The components will be discussed in more detail in the following subsections.

Note: This article applies to deployments managed by IoT.nxt^®. Self-hosted solutions may differ.

Edge Raptor Login

The Edge Raptor login makes use of the Commander™ as an authentication provider. For an overview of this component, please visit the Commander Authentication article.

Edge Raptor Security

The Raptor edge gateways are built on Ubuntu Core. Ubuntu Core offers a number of security advantages. Once of the advantages is that a root of trust has been defined and is managed by the Ubuntu Core system. A writeup on the security features provided by Ubuntu Core can be found here.

Additional security features:

• Raptor implements TLS encryption for data in transit (transmission)
• Encryption of data at rest (storage) and service to service communication encryption
• Multi-level password authentication
• Code Obfuscation
• IP Whitelisting functionality
• Minimum attack surface
• Detailed audit logs
• Changelog management
• Dynamic certificate generation
• HSTS
• Service to service communication encryption