The need to authenticate devices accessing networked services is on the rise as businesses strive to prevent unauthorized devices from gaining access to restricted services. Device authentication can reduce both service piracy and cloning of customer-premise equipment.
Certicom’s new Asset Management System is a comprehensive infrastructure solution designed to help semiconductor companies manage, secure and control manufacturing processes in a global, outsourced manufacturing environment. Some of these processes include timely, secure and reliable capture and reporting of multi-point yield data, virtual SKUing, secure key injection and anti-counterfeit protection.
The foundation of the Certicom Security Architecture is the Security Builder® API™. It provides the means by which applications access various cryptographic providers and abstracts away the differences among cryptographic providers without requiring significant code changes. This means that changing providers or chipsets requires only changes in linkage to the application, and not drastic recoding to the application itself.
The API enables the addition of cryptographic support from a variety of Certicom-supported cryptographic providers to an application.
Advanced Metering Infrastructure’s (AMI) openness and two-way communication capabilities add new risks to what has traditionally been an isolated distribution system. As smart energy homes with demand response capabilities and smart grid infrastructure are deployed, hundreds of millions of devices will be connected in one way or another to utility networks and the public Internet. Information about energy consumption will flow out of homes and offices, remote command and control signals will flow in.
Given the two way command and control connectivity to every customer enabled by AMI, the utility must consider NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) requirements when automating their distribution networks. Certicom Advanced Metering Infrastructure solution was designed to meet these stringent security requirements. A highly scalable turnkey security platform, the AMI 7000 Series secures communications between utility meters and utility companies’ back end meter data management infrastructure by providing data encryption and integrity validation of individual metering data as well as strong authentication of metering commands.