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Micron, Microsoft team up on IoT cloud security

Micron, Microsoft team up on IoT cloud security

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By Peter Clarke



The combination will provide trusted computer models for IoT deployments in industrial, automotive and consumer applications, Micron said.

The Authenta technology utilizes a hardware “root of trust” integrated into flash memory in the IoT leaf node and in the Microsoft Azure IoT cloud to establish a trusted link between that IoT device and the cloud.       

Microsoft has itself been focusing on security and recently tipped research into a minimum hardware configuration for secure MCUs (Microsoft ready to share secure MCU).

Authenta makes use of Device Identity Composition Engine (DICE), an upcoming standard from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), to ensure that only trusted hardware gains access to the IoT cloud. A range of IoT nodes that use standard flash memory chips can now be enhanced to improve cyber-security using this approach.

Authenta is initially available in the Micron serial NOR product family and is sampling now to select customers.  Users of Microsoft’s DICE technology and Azure IoT services can now contact Micron and Microsoft to begin evaluation and integration of these security and identity solutions.

In addition to the hardware, Microsoft and Micron today announced that they will offer software development kits (SDKs) to support authoring secure IoT cloud management and connectivity for new platforms and devices and the ability to retrofit legacy systems.

Next: Starting serial NOR


“A secure Internet of Things requires an always-on trust between billions of end-points and cloud management services. Anchors of this trust must be rooted in hardware and be scalable to even the smallest embedded devices,” said Amit Gattani, an embedded marketing executive at Micron, in a statement. “We are pleased to see Microsoft extending their Azure IoT platform to include such trust services and creating an ecosystem with partners like Micron that provide hardware root of trust building blocks for end-devices.”

Authenta is initially available in the serial NOR product family and is sampling now to select customers.  Users of Microsoft’s DICE technology and Azure IoT services can now contact Micron and Microsoft to begin evaluation and integration of these security and identity solutions.

Related links and articles:

www.micron.com

www.microsoft.com

www.trustedcomputinggroup.org

Trusted Computing Group white paper

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