Time to Protect Edge Devices from Targeted Attacks

One of the key weaknesses in the IoT is at the edge, where the devices that collect data really live. Now, two vendors have teamed up to close that vulnerability.

Webroot, an intelligent cybersecurity vendor for endpoints and collective threat intelligence, and Lynx Software Technologies, an embedded safety and security software vendor, have announced a strategic partnership to combine their security technologies to enable developers to build advanced threat detection and protection into IoT devices.

“With constantly changing security threats, we need an IoT security solution that adapts to any environment while taking into account the importance of future-proofing and the need for living protection,” said Dick Williams, CEO, Webroot. “By combining our technologies, we're able to offer a unique solution to protect the connected IoT world from advanced targeted threats.”

The Webroot IoT Security Toolkit enables IoT and IIoT system integrators and solution designers to integrate real-time threat intelligence services and intelligent cybersecurity device agents to protect critical systems against modern threats. The LynxSecure Hypervisor is a secure virtualization solution based on separation kernel technology, originally designed for military networks. Together, they will detect, identify and contain threats to devices. Any threats that enter the IoT environment will be identified by BrightCloud, quarantined using the LynxSecure isolation capabilities, and removed from the system.

“The foundational security protection that LynxSecure offers to embedded developers is already being used in IoT systems today,” said Gurjot Singh, CEO, Lynx Software Technologies. “By integrating solutions powered by cloud-based threat intelligence from Webroot, we can substantially increase threat awareness and resilience to protect the increasing number of IoT systems that are being connected to the outside world.”

Webroot and Lynx Software Technologies demonstrated the security solution at the IoT Security Conference in Boston September 22 and 23.