DooKey
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Arm hopes to release open-source code early next year that will help secure IoT devices by encrypting their communications and installing OTA security fixes. They call this the Platform Security Architecture and published details today. Not all IoT devices have problems, but for the smaller companies this could be just what they're for to better secure their products. I'm completely on-board with this initiative!
The blueprints were designed after Arm engineers studied various embedded devices out there powered by its processor cores, including the webcams and routers hijacked by the Mirai botnet used to wage war on the internet last year, and developed a threat model – basically, a description of typical miscreants commandeering internet-connected devices and the vulnerabilities exploited to achieve this. With this model in mind, a blueprint to tackle the flaws could be produced.
The blueprints were designed after Arm engineers studied various embedded devices out there powered by its processor cores, including the webcams and routers hijacked by the Mirai botnet used to wage war on the internet last year, and developed a threat model – basically, a description of typical miscreants commandeering internet-connected devices and the vulnerabilities exploited to achieve this. With this model in mind, a blueprint to tackle the flaws could be produced.