IoT Identity Management : Cinterion Trusted Identity Services

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IoT and the demand for secure digital identities

The GSMA predicts we’ll have more than 25 billion connected IoT devices by 2025, and as devices multiply, so too does the quantity of data being sent to cloud platforms.

IoT data is so massive that it’s now being measured by 10s of Zettabytes - one Zettabyte is equal to a trillion Gigabytes!

This surge significantly increases the risk of cyberattacks that can compromise sensitive data, damage equipment, and even shut down critical civil infrastructure.

That’s why state-of-the-art cloud platforms now require sophisticated IoT identity management with remote authentication processes to ensure that devices, application software, and data can be trusted.

Sound complicated?  Thales can help!

Cinterion Trusted Identity Services

The industry-unique Cinterion Trusted Identity Services offer leverages decades of Thales digital security expertise that comes from delivering more than three billion secure devices every year. 

The offer streamlines unique digital identity provisioning and maintenance while securing the complete device-to-cloud journey.

The services leverage IoT device identities and security attributes embedded into the roots of Cinterion modules, gateways, and modem cards.

They then employ an advanced Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to support the automated, secure enrolment of devices into private and public clouds.

The Trusted Identity Services offer is part of a broader array of Cinterion IoT Suite services that provide extremely efficient and secure remote management of IoT devices.

• Trusted device identities pre-injected into IoT devices at Thales secure production facilities. This streamlines the OEM production setup, eliminates the need for IoT developers to deploy their own secure production facilities, and simultaneously defends against device cloning or ID theft in unsecured environments.
• Trusted Identity validation and enrolment in IoT clouds such as Azure and AWS leveraging the award-winning Thales Trusted Key Manager (TKM). A PKI framework and trustful embedded keys and certificates streamline enrolment into any IoT cloud platform. It also encrypts and digitally signs data ensuring confidentiality (data is protected against unauthorized access) and integrity (data is accurate and has not been manipulated.)
• Identity lifecycle management, including remote rotation, transfer or revocation of keys and credentials through a single pane-of-glass. The TKM ensures that lifecycle updates are performed securely, over-the-air virtually eliminating the need for onsite support by maintenance teams. This reduces costs, particularly for large, geographically dispersed fleets.

The result?

Cinterion Trusted Identity Services ensure data confidentiality and integrity while safeguarding the complete data-to-cloud journey for the lifetime of devices.  This takes the security burden off of IoT providers allowing them to focus on their key competencies and expertise.