Consumer Electronics

Connectivity is a major challenge as well as ease of use for this industry. With the advent of smart TVs, home automation, etc. everyone has a connected device in their home. But devices connected to the same network can put the entire network at risk if one of them is attacked. Privacy is also a concern for consumers who are increasingly wary about cyberattacks and anything involving GDPR issues. As a result, there is a growing need for security to protect personal and confidential data.

Protect:

• Securyzr^TM iSE: allows encryption and authentication of data and enables secure communication networks so that several entities can communicate without risk to confidentiality or authenticity. We provide 2 solutions for this challenge: IPsec and MACsec.
• Secure Boot: allows to verify, during the start-up of the device, that none of the electronic components (including the embedded software) has been modified while the product was shut down. It is a state-of-the-art solution, very fast and effective against malware.

In order to guarantee user authenticity and securely manage privileges, multi-factor authentication processes are increasingly used by end-users. Secure-IC enables those authentication processes to run even faster and more securely.

The device lifecycle management

The device lifecycle management is also a growing concern for manufacturers and consumers. Indeed, not only is the security of a device important during the manufacturing phase, but it is also essential throughout the product’s lifecycle (secure elements must be updated, confidential and personal data must be destroyed at some point, etc.).

Protect:

• Securyzr^TM Server: Secure-IC’s chip-to-cloud vision consists of securing a device with an embedded secure element inside the chip and monitoring the entire system throughout its lifecycle via the cloud. With the Securyzr^TM Server, updates of the secure elements can be managed remotely and in real time.

Securing electronic devices, products of a complex & international supply chain

While globalized sourcing and manufacturing processes reduce costs, they increase risk exposure. Indeed, product components go through multiple manufactures and countries before final products are ready for delivery. This manufacturing process increases the vulnerability of devices and the risk of counterfeiting. The lack of visibility in the supply chain makes it difficult to trace components. Therefore, one of the biggest challenges facing the industry is trust. Our customers need to be assured that the quality chain is under control. Electronic components need to be secured to prevent insertion of spywares (Trojans) inside the devices without the knowledge of the manufacturer and the end-user.

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• Laboryzr^TM: this tool can be provided for the customer as a service or as a product. It enables to guarantee the absence of malwares inside a device.
• Virtualyzr^TM and Catalyzr^TM: those two products are meant to help the product designer to evaluate the compliance of a device to the wanted level of security.

Consumer’s experience at the heart of the transition

Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned and educated on environmental safety and eco-friendly devices are more and more in demand. This is a major challenge for consumer electronics manufacturers who must take this into account in order to provide products with long-lasting batteries that will not increase electricity bills, but at the same time be even smarter and more efficient. And production costs must remain reasonable to ensure that consumer products are not too expensive.

Protect:

• Secure-IC’s IP solutions included in our modular Crypto-library offering allow the customer to benefit from flexibility and to keep control of his costs: the flexibility of a tailor-made product with small secure elements. Thanks to our crypto-library, it also becomes possible to add a security layer to electronic products which do not have embedded-security.