Fog Computing – the foundation for distributed digital project evolution and security in business

In the context of the growing complexity of communications, operational management, security systems and special attention is required to the infological tools and infrastructure of the organizations. The digital ecosystem is the basis of both communications, management impact, and the basis for the efficiency and safety of the quality of the company's systems and business processes. The purpose of the study is a system analysis of the modern computing infrastructure of distributed corporate work – vague or Fog Computing, its capabilities, technologies and problems, especially in the field of security. The methodology of the presented study includes methods of system analysis, information-logical modeling and expert heuristic approach. The results of the study were the identification of the range of problems of the foggy infrastructure, the possibilities of flexible and scalable increase in its capacity and security, fault tolerance, as well as approaches to solving systemic problems of an instrumental, informational, integration and other nature. A classification of foggy calculations was also carried out with an emphasis on their safety. Research can be further developed, in particular, in the direction of providing foggy computing infrastructures with the necessary degree of flexibility, standards and their integration, as well as building flexible models and algorithms for identifying process parameters.

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