Alcatel-Lucent acquired Mformation in a move to boost its IoT security and management capabilities for service providers and enterprise customers.

In a statement, the network infrastructure giant said that “in the past six months alone, more than 50 million IoT devices have been hacked or recalled”. As a result, it is looking to allow operators to manage any endpoint or gateway to create an “IoT ‘chain of trust’ built on industry best practices for authentication and data and network security”.

Mformation, which was described as a provider of mobile and IoT security and device management solutions, will be incorporated into Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Platforms organisation. The intention is to provide a “secure, scalable, application-independent IoT security and control platform” for use across industry sectors including automotive, healthcare, utilities, manufacturing and digital home.

The acquired technology will also be offered alongside the vendor’s Motive customer experience management tools, to offer operators an integrated device management platform across home, mobile and enterprise networks.

Earlier this year Mformation introduced tools targeting the managing of “all connected things”, describing its Impact product as “a solution for more complex ecosystems”. It also offers M2M device certification services.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.