Securitization of cloud, edge and IoT communications through hardware accelerations/offloadings

Networking is enabling a continuum comprising cloud, edge and last-mile systems. This continuum allows services and applications to join the fabric at any point and have access to processing power independently of the location of entrance. To enable this paradigm, we need to make sure we have a networking fabric capable of transporting and access network resources seamlessly and communication channels that are securitized, ensuring confidentiality and integrity of data. A challenge in securitization is that it takes computing resources away, and hence it may reduce the overall network performance. Hardware accelerations or offloads enable to reduce the burden on processing resources of securitization processes; in this contribution, we present how IPsec and TLS protocols provide a tool for a high level of securitization of the communication channels and approaches to accelerate/offload those protocols.