NanoLock Collaboration With Micron for Flash-to-Cloud Management Solution for Security of IoT Devices

NanoLock Security Ltd. is collaborating with Micron Technology, Inc. to provide a ‘Flash-to-Cloud’ management solution for security of IoT and connected devices.

The combined solutions comprised of NanoLock’s Management of Things platform (MoT) and Micron’s Authenta-enabled flash memory will provide organizations the ability to manage, securely update and protect IoT devices, regardless of their computation power or operating system requirements. Operators and OEMs can leverage standard silicon trust anchors in flash memory to enhance firmware authentication and integrity of IoT devices to achieve additional revenue opportunities.

“Managing and protecting IoT devices are among the biggest challenges and barriers to deploying IoT and realizing business value from those deployments,” said Amit Gattani, senior director, segment marketing, embedded business unit, Micron. “NanoLock’s technology complements our Authenta-enabled flash memory solution by providing embedded security at the device level and extending that security to the cloud. It also opens the door to creating a new ROI-driven approach for managing and protecting millions of new devices.”

The combined solutions provide a value proposition to operators, IoT service providers and enterprises by minimizing the complexity and accelerating the time-to-market of IoT devices based on silicon-level cryptographic roots of trust in standard flash memory components. Extending this trust to the NanoLock MoT and FOTALock management platforms enables richer device-level protection and makes enterprise grade management affordable. The resulting services will enable service providers the ability to now trust a broadened ecosystem of IoT devices much sooner while protecting and managing fleets of devices in a much more unified ecosystem.

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The technology solution will be based on a ‘Flash-to-Cloud’ trustworthiness model that is quickly gaining in market acceptance due to the simplicity and high integrity derived from single storage silicon – standard flash memory – providing critical health and protection schemes for code and critical data. Users will be able to register, provision and provide advanced services like firmware-over-the-air updates (FOTA), all verified in a silicon root of trust. Integrated into ‘Flash-to-Cloud’ platform, Authenta technology allows device makers to design with standard flash memory and maintain backward compatibility. It enables mutual protection from the production line through the device’s end of life, while consuming virtually zero computing and power resources.

“Partnering with Micron emphasizes the universal need for trusted management with ironclad security in IoT devices,” said Yoni Kahana, VP, customers, NanoLock. “A secure channel between end devices and the cloud, and the ability to seamlessly manage that channel simplifies IoT deployments and simultaneously provides a revenue stream for customers.”

The two companies are currently integrating the Authenta security framework with MoT and FOTALock platforms to enable a fully compatible end-to-end solution.

This unified IoT security and management solution will be commercially available in 2019.

Additional resources:
NanoLock’s Intro Video
Micron Authenta Technology