Paper Title: IoT Security Embedded in Memory Cards

Paper Abstract: With devices, machinery and manufacturing plants getting smarter, they also become more vulnerable. When designing networked devices, machinery and production facilities, developers need to place more focus on security aspects. As a building block of IT and data security, systems communicating over the internet directly or via IoT gateways need to have a unique and non-cloneable identity. Systems must also be able to send, receive and store cryptographically strongly secured data. Solutions involving only the use of software rarely offer sufficient protection. Pluggable security modules in standard form factors have two major advantages. Firstly, older machinery and systems generally have a USB port or memory card interface, allowing retrofitting a security anchor to fulfill increasing cyber security requirements. Secondly, the pluggable security devices are also easy to replace during the lifecycle of the system, since the field-life of industrial equipment is typically much longer than the innovation cycle of Smart Cards. Presentation Value: Shows the need for hardware-based security in IoT systems and presents an approach to protect data and devices.

Paper Author: Martin Schreiber, , Swissbit

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