FIDO-based authentication for connected and standalone devices
Using the the company’s S3 Authentication Suite digital authentication platform, the Nok Nok IoT SDK is designed to enable organizations to provide flexible, easy-to-use, and secure user-to-device authentication. The solution, says the company, leverages its unique legacy in providing passwordless customer authentication across mobile applications, mobile Web, desktop Web, and smart watches.
The SDK is designed to address the increasing deployment and use of cloud-connected, data collecting IoT devices and issues associated with the use of standard username-password authentication methodologies.
“Today, many devices contain default passwords that are identical across product lines, and for authenticating users to devices – this is neither secure nor convenient,” says Dr. Rolf Lindemann, Vice President, Products, of Nok Nok Labs. “And, we are just now witnessing the first regulations banning such shared default passwords and promoting the use of individual default passwords or multi-factor authentication.”
“As an inventor of FIDO specifications,” says Lindemann, “Nok Nok addresses the need for standards-based authentication solutions, and we can bring this expertise to a new market and avoid repeating the weak username and password authentication practices of the past.”
Thad Peterson, Senior Analyst, Aite Group. adds, “Building a standard inside the [IoT} device — like the Nok Nok IoT SDK — creates potential for industries like healthcare and manufacturing to secure increasingly remote work environments.”
The Nok Nok IoT SDK offers the following features:
- Can easily run on existing microcontroller units (MCUs).
- Meets security industry standards and global regulatory requirements that specify “no (shared) default passwords.”
- Provides a practical way to implement MFA for devices that is more convenient than passwords.
- Supports standalone and cloud connected devices.
- Provides convenient and secure authentication with two-factor authentication and supports all biometric modalities.
As new IoT devices are introduced, says the company, its authentication infrastructure lowers the cost and complexity of integrating new use cases. The Nok Nok S3 platform in combination with the Nok Nok IoT SDK is designed to allow organizations to address all their authentication use cases through a single developer API, including mobile applications, mobile and desktop Web applications, applications for wearables, and now IoT devices, with support for FIDO and other global standards.
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