Embedded Security Consulting Services

IoT security consulting iconFind embedded security services from IoT from industry leader Cardinal Peak. Whether you need secure hardware or software development, our team of IoT security consultants provides services to ensure your device and customers are protected, including:

  • Security and keychain management – security starts with design and continuing as long as a product is in use.
  • Balancing security and ease of use – considering security and providing the best user experience required a deep understanding of the tolerances of the target market.
  • Secure hardware design – hardware design often starts with specially provisioned authenticity chips to validate the device and prevent the manufacturing of non-sanctioned units.
  • Securing against a physical attacks and hacks – depending on the device, it may be necessary to secure against physical attacks, hacks and remote software attacks.
  • Secure software development – best practices include regular updates to address new threats and, vitally important, ensuring that updates come from a verified source.

Security continues through the cloud software and the end-user apps. Most importantly, every aspect of the security must be maintained — a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Cardinal Peak’s IoT security services ensure that no holes have been left in your security architecture.

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Embedded Device Security Case Studies

Cardinal Peak supports innovative embedded security for Internet of Things including hardware and software solutions such as the projects below. If you’re looking for IoT security consulting, please contact us.


Embedded Systems Security FAQs

How Does Embedded Systems Security Differ From General Embedded Security?

IoT device security adds another layer of complexity for embedded security. For wireless IoT devices, it is important to protect against man-in-middle and other wireless intrusion strategies. Generally, IoT devices are designed to only connect to one cloud service as a means of ensuring the device is not being used by a hacker to eavesdrop. Since these are connected devices, they can be misused to become spying devices. At manufacture, credentials with unique keys are installed in the device to ensure only authorized access to your cloud service. An over-the-air (OTA) firmware update is one of the compelling features for connected devices but requires the proper precautions to prevent unauthorized code from being installed. These are just a few unique considerations for IoT security. To read more, see our blog Security Best Practices: From IoT to HIPAA.

What Do Embedded Security Services Involve?

There are many facets to embedded security. Like all security, there is an important balance that needs to be maintained between usability and security. It is easy to make a device so secure that no one can use it. Some of the things we think about in embedded security include Secure Boot, not allowing any default usernames/passwords, and using TLS or equivalent. Of course, the list goes on and on. Read more in our blog What is the weakest link in your IoT product security chain?

How Can I Ensure My IoT device Has a Secure Hardware Design?

Designing secure hardware involves many aspects that are tuned to the exact application. For IoT devices we often design in device authentication hardware to ensure all devices on the network are genuine. For some applications, it is necessary to design against physical attacks where someone uses physical means to gain control over or access to an otherwise secure device. There are also the obvious items, like making sure all debug interfaces are disabled in production.


Embedded Security Resources

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How IoT Security Standards Help Ensure Embedded Security

With the growth of the IoT also comes rising concerns surrounding the security of connected devices and IoT products. These devices often contain sensitive and private information — and the threat of a massive cyberattack expands with every new device.

IoT Security Standards
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Embedded Security and the Top Properties of a Secure System

With the IoT becoming ever-present in our lives, embedded security has taken on increased importance in a world in which data is a valuable currency. This blog post defines the challenge and highlights the top 10 characteristics of a secure system.

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The Difference Between HMAC and MAC

Hash-based message authentication code, or HMAC, is an important building block for proving that data transmitted between the components of a system has not been tampered with. It is a widely used cryptographic technology. I recently came across its use in an RFID system.

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