Micron and Microsoft Announce Collaboration to Help Improve Internet of Things Security
April 24 2017 - 8:00AM
Micron Technology (Nasdaq:MU) and Microsoft today announced a
collaboration that aims to address the major challenge of providing
trusted computing models for IoT deployments in industrial,
automotive and consumer environments. As digitization and adoption
of Internet Protocol (IP) for sensors and devices becomes
increasingly pervasive, cyber-security is one of the biggest
challenges and barriers to the growth of IoT deployments and
associated business models. The new solution utilizes a hardware
‘root of trust’ integrated into Micron’s flash memory in the IoT
device along with the Microsoft Azure IoT cloud to establish a
strong trusted link between that IoT device and the cloud.
At the Hannover Messe 2017, Micron has also announced a new IoT
security technology called Micron® Authenta™ that helps enable
strong cryptographic device identity and device health management
in flash memory. The concept of monitoring persistent memory
storage is becoming more and more critical to understanding a
device’s health. By using Microsoft’s support of Device Identity
Composition Engine (DICE), an upcoming standard from the Trusted
Computing Group (TCG), the combination of the Microsoft Azure IoT
cloud and Micron® Authenta™ Technology helps ensure that only
trusted hardware gains access to the IoT cloud.
The key aspect of the combined solution is that the health and
identity of an IoT device is verified in hardware on the device
where critical code is typically stored. This enables more advanced
functionality like hardware-based device attestation and
provisioning, as well as allows an administrator to securely
remediate the device if compromised in the field.
Micron’s Authenta™ Technology provides a unique level of
protection for the lowest layers of IoT device software, starting
with the boot process. The approach of utilizing existing
standard flash memory sockets enables system developers to harden
system level security without adding additional hardware
components, leading to a more affordable and robust IoT solution.
A wide range of IoT devices that use standard flash memory
chips can now be enhanced to improve cyber-security using this
combined approach.
In addition to the hardware, Microsoft and Micron today
announced that they will offer software development kits (SDKs)
that help make it easier to provide secure IoT cloud management and
connectivity for new platforms and devices, as well as the ability
to retrofit legacy systems.
“Microsoft and Micron are collaborating to provide customers
with a unified approach to improve IoT security. This capability
will speed up adoption of the latest IoT concepts by enabling
customers to broaden their IoT connectivity while decreasing the
investment of implementation,” said Sam George, director of Azure
IoT cloud services. “Combining these technologies will enable
critical security competencies to be underpinned at a low-level in
both hardware and software so that users can quickly begin to add
their value to these solutions without many of the resource burdens
that have been repressing innovation in the industry.”
“A secure Internet of Things requires an always on trust between
billions of end-points and cloud management services. Anchors of
this trust must be rooted in hardware and be scalable to even the
smallest embedded devices,” said Amit Gattani, senior director of
Segment Marketing, Embedded Business at Micron. “We are pleased to
see Microsoft extending their Azure IoT platform to include such
trust services and creating an ecosystem with partners like Micron
that provide hardware root of trust building blocks for
end-devices. This will significantly ease developments and
deployments for our customers across Industrial, Automotive and
Consumer IoT markets.”
Visitors to the Hannover Messe Industrial show this week can
come see Azure-connected Micron Authenta Technology Flash solutions
in action at the Microsoft booth (C040XX) in Hall 7. And
developers can learn how to improve the ROI on IoT implementations
by utilizing these solutions at Microsoft Build in Seattle May
10–12.
Micron’s Authenta™ Technology is initially available in the
Serial NOR product family and is sampling now to select customers.
Users of Microsoft’s DICE technology and Azure IoT services
can now contact Micron and Microsoft to begin evaluation and
integration of these security and identity solutions. For
more information, visit http://www.micron.com and read
Microsoft’s blog at
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-supports-new-security-hardware-to-strengthen-iot-security/
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