Swissbit Distributed by Hagiwara Solutions

Swissbit AG and Hagiwara Solutions Co., Ltd. announce their cooperation for security ventures.

Swissbit’s flash memory cards with security features will be distributed by Hagiwara Solutions in Japan who will also support customers with solutions for the protection of networked industrial controls and devices in the IoT. Access, data and communication can be secured using the company’s security products which ensure that machines are protected from cyber-attacks. As their first joint activity, the two companies will be exhibiting together at the ESEC – Embedded Systems Expo and Conference, in Tokyo, Japan, from May 9 to 11.

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Security products from the company are SD and microSD memory cards with special firmware extensions as well as variants with an integrated smart card chip as secure element.

Hagiwara intends to use the German-made industrial memory cards to offer solutions for urgent security requirements of Japanese developers.

Very often industrial controls and devices networked in the IoT are not enabled for secure encryption and authentication. SD memory cards with secure element from the firm allow developers of embedded systems to introduce a root of trust or to perform security updates easily. Thanks to the APIs included, implementing security routines is simple. The combination of a standard industrial data medium with security features allows for upgradeable solutions. Consequently, security solution updates can be implemented at any time.

Application options
Integrating a secure flash card from the company in an embedded system and using it as token, ID or encryption entity allows for a variety of interesting application options. Unique identifiability, for example, can serve as a certificate of authenticity, for trusted boot or for the secure encryption of M2M communication. The integrated cryptography can be used for tamper-proof and protect data protocols.

The firm’s security products are used in tap-proof phones, police bodycams, cash registers and industrial PLCs.