New ETSI IoT Platform is secure and scalable
“ETSI specified the first SIM card in the late 1980s as well as the secure platform for all the following generations of SIMs. With 5G and IoT coming up, there was a need to go beyond this field-proven platform and think of innovative form factors and features that would address new market requirements and provide a secure platform for all security-sensitive industry sectors,” commented Klaus Vedder, Chairman of the ETSI Technical Committee Smart Card Platform.
The ETSI Smart Secure Platform offers an open platform for multiple applications with various physical interfaces and form factors. The new flexible file system and built-in capabilities support several authentication methods, as well as features defined for a UICC – the current security platform used, for instance, for the SIM card – such as a toolkit or a contactless interface. SSP is a highly secure, scalable, thus cost-efficient solution optimized to fit many requirements, from IoT applications to complex solutions, hosting several applications such as banking and payment, ID management and access to mobile networks. Furthermore, the SSP is backwards compatible with the UICC.
The three specifications cover the general technical characteristics of the Smart Secure Platform with ETSI TS 103 666-1, the integration of the Secure Element into a System on Chip (SoC) solution in ETSI TS 103 666 2 and, as the first protocol between the Smart Secure Platform and the outside world, the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), which is specified in ETSI TS 103 713. Further specifications such as the embedded and the removable Smart Secure Platform as well as the I2C interface will follow in due course.
Though the first implementations are expected to be in the fields of IoT and 5G, the Smart Secure Platform is designed in such a way that other industry sectors such as banking, transport and ID as well as interested parties can easily adapt the SSP to serve as a security platform for their own need.
To know more about the features and capabilities of this next generation of secure platforms, you can register for ETSI’s webinar on 19 December 2019 at 4PM CET there: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12761/378765
ETSI – www.etsi.org
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