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IOT Security Embedded in Memory Cards

AS DEVICES, MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURING PLANTS GET SMARTER, THEY ALSO
BECOME MORE VULNERABLE.

By Hubertus Grobbel, Vice President Security Solutions, Swissbit.

When designing networked devices, machinery and production facilities, developers need to place more
focus on security aspects. Swissbit now offers a flexible, hardware-based approach that includes TPM
(Trusted Platform Module) and data encryption.

For IT- and data-security, systems communicating over the Internet or via their gateways in the IoT
(Internet of Things), need to have a unique and non-cloneable identity. Systems must also be able to
send, receive and store cryptographically and heavily secured data. Solutions involving only the use of
software rarely offer sufficient protection. This presents developers and manufacturers with great
challenges.

Swissbit, the storage and security expert, offers a new hardware-based approach. Developers of
embedded systems for industrial applications know Swissbit as the only independent European
manufacturer of flash memory products. Many see the Swiss company, manufacturing in Germany, as
their top choice for robust, durable SSDs with PCIs and SATA-interfaces, CompactFlash, USB-flash
drives, SD and microSD memory cards and managed NAND BGAs.

Based on decades of experience in the protection of stored data, Swissbit has now developed a new
advanced approach to security for embedded IoT devices. The thought process behind the development
is that every device needs memory to act as a boot medium for log files, and data cache memory in case
of network failures. These memory interfaces can and should have security features.

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