Hardware-level security is now a baseline requirement for market entry, not just a differentiator. It’s the foundation of your brand’s reputation and IP. But implementing hardware-level security is complex. Standard development partners are often not equipped to handle the advanced capabilities of the Silabs platform. We specialize in these complex implementations.
As a dedicated Silicon Labs Design Partner, we have deep expertise in their most advanced security and provisioning technologies. We don’t just “use” security; we architect your product around it from day one, ensuring you get the full benefit of the silicon you’re paying for.
Silicon Labs’ Secure Vault is the industry leader in IoT security, but it requires expert implementation to be effective. Our IoT security design services leverage its full power:
Silabs hardware protects against both scalable software attacks and physical hardware attacks. Our teams are experts in building products that correctly utilize this pre-vetted technology, helping you achieve your own end-product certifications. This is required for upcoming regulatory standards (like EU Cyber Resilience Act or US Trust Mark).
We use the hardware root of trust to implement a true secure boot process, ensuring your device only runs authenticated, untampered embedded software.
We provision your devices with unforgeable secure identities, allowing them to prove who they are to your cloud and preventing counterfeit devices from joining your network.
We implement advanced physical security, using Secure Vault’s features to lock down debug ports and protect against side-channel attacks in the field.
Your intellectual property is your most valuable asset. How do you protect your embedded software when you send it to an untrusted contract manufacturer?
We provide IoT supply chain security services utilizing Silabs’ Custom Part Manufacturing Service (CPMS).
We tailor our team to your specific needs. Whether you need a security architecture review by our US experts or a dedicated team to implement CPMS across a product line, we have a proven delivery model that fits.
Our US-based engineers are experts in high-security architecture, PSA Certified design, and threat modeling. They are ideal for defining your security strategy and ensuring your architecture is robust before code is written.
Get the best of both worlds. This model combines US-based security leadership with the scale, cost-efficiency and deep skills of our offshore engineering team.
We assemble an offshore team that meets your ongoing needs for IoT security engineering. The team draws from institutional knowledge including our SiLabs ODC. This scalable model applies factory-level expertise in CPMS and Secure Vault for cost-effective execution.
Our US-based engineers are experts in high-security architecture, PSA Certified design, and threat modeling. They are ideal for defining your security strategy and ensuring your architecture is robust before code is written.
Get the best of both worlds. This model combines US-based security leadership with the scale, cost-efficiency and deep skills of our offshore engineering team.
We assemble an offshore team that meets your ongoing needs for IoT security engineering. The team draws from institutional knowledge including our SiLabs ODC. This scalable model applies factory-level expertise in CPMS and Secure Vault for cost-effective execution.
Our teams have real-world experience delivering high-security products for smart home, medical, and industrial clients. We are the trusted partner for projects where security failure is not an option.
We architected the embedded software and security layers for a specialized hardware wallet, implementing an air-gapped signing mechanism and secure boot process to protect private keys from physical and digital theft.
Cardinal Peak has been developing connected products for more than two decades. Our engineer shares smart home product design challenges and FAQs for designing IoT products, to help you chart your product’s development.
Migrating away from a PaaS required a new security model. We designed a custom mutual authentication (mTLS) handshake between the ESP32 device and the client’s AWS cloud, ensuring zero trust for unauthorized devices.
We architected the embedded software and security layers for a specialized hardware wallet, implementing an air-gapped signing mechanism and secure boot process to protect private keys from physical and digital theft.
Cardinal Peak has been developing connected products for more than two decades. Our engineer shares smart home product design challenges and FAQs for designing IoT products, to help you chart your product’s development.
Migrating away from a PaaS required a new security model. We designed a custom mutual authentication (mTLS) handshake between the ESP32 device and the client’s AWS cloud, ensuring zero trust for unauthorized devices.
From the EU Cyber Resilience Act to the US Trust Mark, regulatory requirements are tightening. We break down the key standards and can show you how Silicon Labs’ Secure Vault helps achieve compliance with minimal redesign.
Security is more than just encryption. Our architects define the ten non-negotiable properties of a secure device—including hardware roots of trust and secure manufacturing—that protect your brand from scalable attacks.
If an attacker can dump your flash memory, they own your IP. We explore the critical differences between software obfuscation and true hardware-based memory protection in high-value connected systems.
From the EU Cyber Resilience Act to the US Trust Mark, regulatory requirements are tightening. We break down the key standards and can show you how Silicon Labs’ Secure Vault helps achieve compliance with minimal redesign.
Security is more than just encryption. Our architects define the ten non-negotiable properties of a secure device—including hardware roots of trust and secure manufacturing—that protect your brand from scalable attacks.
If an attacker can dump your flash memory, they own your IP. We explore the critical differences between software obfuscation and true hardware-based memory protection in high-value connected systems.
CPMS (Custom Part Manufacturing Service) is a Silabs service that lets you order factory-programmed chips. It is a cornerstone of IoT supply chain security. We use it to pre-load your embedded software and keys directly at the Silabs factory, meaning your contract manufacturer never sees your IP.
This is our service to implement a secure boot process on your device. We use the hardware root of trust in Secure Vault to ensure that, every time your device powers on, it cryptographically verifies that the embedded software it’s about to run is authentic, signed, and untampered with.
Most IoT security is only certified to protect against software attacks. A PSA Certified Level 3 design proves the chip can also withstand physical hardware attacks. By using our IoT security design services, you are building your product on a proven, third-party-validated foundation.
Security requires specialized knowledge of the silicon. Because our ODC team works exclusively with Silabs parts every day, they have deep familiarity with the security peripherals, registers, and tools (like Simplicity Studio’s security settings) that a generalist engineer might miss. We leverage this “Center of Excellence” to build a team for you that gets security right the first time.
