Fortanix helps leading IoT solution provider to deliver secure IoT monitoring capabilities
Customer Profile
Located in Eastern Europe, the company specializes in delivering IoT solutions. Specifically, the company offers a range of advanced environmental and positional monitoring sensors that are managed through its secure IoT platform with end-to-end encryption.
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Challenge
- The company recognized that there is a deep lack of awareness about security issues in IoT applications. Given the rapidly growing number of IoT devices connected to critical infrastructure and cloud services, a holistic approach to security was needed to prevent cybercriminals from finding and exploiting security loopholes in the system and causing irreparable damage to critical infrastructure. The consequences of a hacker gaining access to critical infrastructure could of course be catastrophic: hostile intrusion could potentially result in tracking of sensitive resources, material loss or physical harm, as well as theft of sensitive data.
- Preventing unauthorized access to the IoT systems
- Ensuring that the data security framework was scalable with business growth and holistic in nature to enable end to end security across the system
Fortanix Solutions
The company’s secure IoT platform consists of three main components: firstly, proprietary hardened sensor devices, which protect against the possible risk of embedded malware or spyware in sensors that may be sourced from third parties (the generic sensor circuit board can be implemented in a broad range of use cases); secondly, a cloud-based IoT platform for device management, data collection and distribution, which protects against the risk of data intrusion; and thirdly, front-end services that are used for the presentation of data from the users’ devices.
Full Key Lifecycle Management
Fortanix delivers full key lifecycle management as a service to ensure secure and consistent key management across on-premises and multicloud environments.
Broad Cryptographic Operations
Support for full NSA Suite B algorithms: RSA, AES, Elliptical Curve2. Perform broad cryptographic operations and key management operations, including key generation, key import, key rotation, key derivation, encryption, decryption, signing, verification, tokenization, and masking
Automated Key Operations
State of art automation features like automatic key rotation, one click rotation across regions and clouds, automatic key expiration based key rotations, automatic alerting based on key state changes. These automation features simplify and secure key management and operations.
Centralized Control
Centralized intuitive web-based user interface for management. Role-based access control (RBAC) for users, applications, and groups with segregation of duties. Comprehensive tamper-proof audit logs to track all activity, including administration, authentication, access, and key operations.
