Latin America. With the growth of the Internet of Things, pressure is increasing to reduce the cyber risks of connected devices. Although security is a major concern, many autonomous vehicle or smart home devices and sensors lack it. ABI Research expects this to change rapidly.
In fact, the consultancy estimates that sales of devices with integrated security will increase exponentially to reach 4,000 million units in 2021. "Most connected devices are not designed with security in mind, and many manufacturers lack the funding, expertise and awareness to implement it," says Michela Menting, director of research at ABI Research.
For the firm, hardware-based security solutions play an important role in this scenario.
But, IoT devices need a trusted platform, such as Embedded Secure Element (eSE), Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), or Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to perform cryptographic authentication.
Each platform performs critical security functions and provides Trusted Roots (RoT), which are critical components to the security architecture and enable the protection of data, efficiently, throughout its lifecycle.
TPM chips, for example, are ideal for combating the security issues of these environments, with major manufacturers behind them, such as Atmel, Broadcom, Infineon, Nuvoton, and STMicroelectronics.
TMP has big companies backing it up, such as Microsoft, which developed TMP capabilities for Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10.
