Symantec extends its portfolio of security products with a new Embedded Critical System Protection, designed to support IoT devices against zero-day attacks.
ATM maker, Wincor Nixdorf, is one of the first to adopt it.
Symantec has announced that it provides more than one billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including everything from televisions and cars to smart meters and critical infrastructure.
Με τις συσκευές IoT να αναμένεται να φτάσουν τα 25 δισεκατομμύρια το 2020¹, η Symantec ηγείται της προσπάθειας για την προστασία των καταναλωτών από επιθέσεις στις συνδεδεμένες στο διαnetwork their devices.
"While IoT's innovation and adoption continues to grow, this also creates a first-rate opportunity for new cyber-security risks and is the next obstacle to be defeated. In the automotive industry, hackers have managed to literally steer the car and "hit the brakes" simply from their keyboards, "said Shankar Somasundaram, Senior Director of Internet of Things Security, Symantec. "Symantec is working with manufacturers in the automotive industry, industrial control, and semiconductor industries, in addition to existing healthcare and retailing partnerships."
As part of its broader strategy for Unified Security, Symantec is investing in providing the world's most comprehensive IoT security solutions for the global industry.
This approach includes authentication, device security, and analytics and management that will help prevent electronic attacks from happening in cars, medical devices, industrial control systems, and countless consumer electronics as we read daily in the news . Symantec's IoT portfolio includes:
• Device security with Symantec's Embedded Critical System Protection: Symantec's new solution protects IoT devices by locking down the device's embedded software to prevent and protect against zero-day attacks. Symantec has already signed a cooperation agreement with the company Wincor, the leading provider in the field of solutions and services information technologys in retail banking, as well as in the retail industry, together with other leading car manufacturers and automotive ecosystems.
• IoT Roots of Trust and Device Certifications: Symantec works with major chip and cryptographic libraries, including Texas Instruments and wolfSSL, to integrate hardware-based security. These collaborations combine Symantec's leading Certificate Authority with embedded partner engines to create new "Roots of Trust", the foundation for security and device encryption, and authentication of information .
• Code Signatures and Secure App Certifications: Symantec to provide code execution on IoT devices provides code signature certificates as well as a cloud-based signing-as-a-service service for various IoT-related code formats .
In its future plans, Symantec aims to help businesses tackle IoT security by presenting new technologies such as an IoT portal to manage all of IoT's security by means of a single interface, as well as analytical data for prevent safety and identify anomalies that may indicate attacks on IoT networks.
Η Symantec recently announced a new collaboration in IoT security with Frost Data Capital to incubate early-stage start-ups with funding, resources and expertise.
Frost Data Capital strengthens the incubator, with experienced entrepreneurs, proven innovative methodology and process, and deep experience in large data analysis, IoT, industry and health care. These newly established companies will be able to collaborate with Symantec to solve the most complex challenges, shaping tomorrow's threat landscape.
Strategic Partnerships:
• "It was important for Wincor Nixdorf to choose Symantec to provide security to people who conduct financial transactions on ATMs. Symantec's core security technology coupled with Wincor Nixdorf's experience has resulted in a solution that offers the best in security against ATM software attacks, "said Karan Oberoi, Global Product Manager, Software Security Wincor Nixdorf.
• “Providing secure, simple and seamless authentication requires the integration of certificates for IoT products,” said Gil Reiter, Director of Strategic Marketing – IoT, Texas Instruments (TI). “TI, to help customers secure cloud communications, integrates Symantec root certificate into multiple IoT devices to digitally sign and validate Internet communications and upgrade firmware. In the future, TI will offer new features capable of validating secure ccmovement digitally signed code to help customers increase the security of IoT devices."
• “The IoT market is hungry for a comprehensive security solution,” said Larry Stefonic, Founder and CEO of wolfSSL. “As industry leaders for trusted IoT infrastructures, wolfSSL Inc and Symantec in order to meet the needs of the market, must, through a combined solution, help developers by providing security against the three most fundamental security challenges in IoT: Attack Man in the Middle (MITM), ασφαλής αναβαθμίσεις του firmware και κρυπτογράφηση δεδομένων στη συσκευή. “
