Secure Boot for IoT Devices

Join our VP of IoT and Embedded Solutions, Alan Grau, as he dives into secure boot for IoT devices. What you'll learn from this video:
► What is Secure Boot?
Secure boot is a critical security capability that must be built into IoT devices by the OEM. Secure boot requires a root of trust, a known good starting point. Secure boot requires a method of provisioning devices, that is programming the device with the keys and signatures required by secure boot to verify software.

► Secure Boot Provides a Critical Layer of Security
Attacks against IoT devices continue to make headlines. Secure boot is a critical element to secure devices against these attacks.

► How Hackers Attack Embedded Devices
Hackers attack devices by first finding and exploiting a security weakness giving them access to the device. Once in, they implant malicious code on the device allowing them control over the device.

► Why Should You Care?
Secure boot enables an IoT device to verify the code it is running. With secure boot, the device no longer must blindly trust that the code running on the device is valid or safe. It can be verified.

► Why Is Secure Boot Hard?
Most IoT devices are designed to just run whatever code is on the device. Secure boot requires a change in the system design approach.

► Root of Trust
A root of trust is code that is known to be good and is trusted. There are several methods for implementing a root of trust in IoT devices to provide a known good starting point for secure boot.

► Code Signing & Code Validation
Secure boot utilizes digital signatures to verify the integrity of code. This is the same technology as used for document signing and any other digital signature process, only applied to the device firmware.

► Core Functionality Required for Secure Boot
Secure boot deliverables include code signing tools, secure boot APIs and capability to integrate with various hardware platforms.

► Secure Boot Components
Sectigo’s Secure Boot SDK includes a porting layer, certificate and crypto libraries and the core secure boot APIs and libraries.

► Why Sectigo is Your Trusted Partner for IoT Security
Sectigo is a leading provider of security for IoT devices, providing robust, mature solutions that are scalable across a wide variety of embedded hardware platforms.

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