This is the security solution I’ve been calling for, for more than a year. In a new announcement, Icon Labs, a provider of security solutions for IoT and edge devices, has introduced its Floodgate Key Manager that is designed to help OEMs and developers embed secure credentialing services into their devices at the production level. This embedded key management solution provides integration with multiple certificate authorities, including Verizon’s certificate authority, also known as IoT SC.
The Floodgate Key Manager provides automated enrollment with Certificate Authorities using the industry’s only RTOS-compatible implementation of the SCEP protocol. It supports embedded Linux and a wide variety of RTOSes including Nucleus, UC/OS-III, ThreadX, VxWorks, and LynxOS. In addition to secure credentialing, the Framework includes secure boot, secure software updates, firewall, intrusion detection, TLS, and a management agent.
“Protecting against cyber-attack has become a critical part of developing new IoT and Industrial IoT systems, devices, and machines,” said Alan Grau, President, Icon Labs. “We are working with leading technology companies including Renesas Electronics America, Inc. and Verizon to develop and deliver easy to use and robust security solutions that will scale to meet the requirements of any IoT deployment regardless of size and levels of complexity.”
The way it allows IoT devices to perform automatic enrollment is pretty simple (finally). During enrollment, each device securely obtains a certificate that is used for identification and authentication when communicating with other devices also enrolled in the same PKI system.
The development and integration is complete and available now on the Renesas Synergy platform. The Synergy platform provides the hardware foundation, ensuring that the secure boot code, cryptographic keys, certificates, and signatures have not been tampered with.
“The Renesas Synergy Platform continues to lead the way with easy-to-implement, complete solutions for IoT products. Our VSA partners like Icon Labs, and others like Verizon, help us to offer a complete solution that you can be confident will speed your time to market,” said Brian Davis, VP, Marketing, Synergy IoT Platform Business Division, Renesas Electronics America.
Edited by
Alicia Young
