Symantec is expanding 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.
25 2020 XNUMX is expected to reach XNUMX billion, Symantec is leading the effort to protect consumers from attacks on their Internet-connected devices.
“While IoT innovation and adoption continues to grow, it also creates a prime opportunity for new cyber security risks and is the next hurdle to overcome. In the automotive industry, hackers have managed to literally direct it 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, industrial control, and semiconductor industries, in addition to existing partnerships in the healthcare and retail markets."
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 partnership agreement with Wincor, the leading provider of IT solutions and services in the retail banking and retail industry, along with other leading automotive and automotive ecosystem manufacturers.
• IoT Roots of Trust and Device Certificates: Symantec works with major chip and cryptographic library providers, including Texas Instruments and wolfSSL, to embed security at the hardware level. These partnerships combine Symantec's leading certificates (Certificate Authorities) with the partners' integrated engines to create new "Roots of Trust" confidences), the cornerstones for device security and encryption and information authentication.
• 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.
• «Η παροχή ασφαλούς, απλής και απρόσκοπτης επικύρωσης απαιτεί την ενσωμάτωση των πιστοποιητικών για τα προϊόντα IoT», δήλωσε ο Gil Reiter, Διευθυντής Στρατηγικού Μάρκετινγκ - IoT, της Texas Instruments (TI). «Η TI, για να βοηθήσει τους πελάτες στις ασφαλείς επικοινωνίες σε cloud, ενσωματώνει το Symantec root certificate σε πολλαπλές συσκευές IoT για την ψηφιακή υπογραφή και επικύρωση επικοινωνιών στο Διαδίκτυο και την αναβάθμιση του firmware. Στο μέλλον η TI θα προσφέρει νέα χαρακτηριστικά, ικανά να επικυρώνουν την ασφαλή εκκίνηση με ψηφιακή υπογραφή κώδικα για να βοηθήσει τους πελάτες να αυξήσουν την ασφάλεια των συσκευών IoT».
• «Η αγορά του IoT διψά για μια ολοκληρωμένη λύση ασφάλειας», δήλωσε ο Larry Stefonic, Ιδρυτής και Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος της wolfSSL. «Ως ηγέτες της βιομηχανίας για αξιόπιστες υποδομές IoT, η wolfSSL Inc και η Symantec προκειμένου να ικανοποιήσουν τις ανάγκες της αγοράς, θα πρέπει, μέσω μιας συνδυασμένης λύσης να βοηθήσουν τους προγραμματιστές παρέχοντας ασφάλεια ενάντια στις τρεις πιο θεμελιώδεις προκλήσεις για την ασφάλεια στο IoT: Επίθεση Man in the Middle (MITM), ασφαλής αναβαθμίσεις του firmware και κρυπτογράφηση δεδομένων στη συσκευή. "
