A new company has been formed to act as a standard security provider across smart connected devices.
Cambridge-based Trustonic has been formed by ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D). It plans to use its technology to provide services in areas such as enterprise, commerce, payments and entertainment.
Companies including 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cisco, Discretix, Good Technology, INSIDE Secure, Irdeto, MasterCard, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics, Sprint, Symantec, and Wave Systems have already offered their support.
“Trustonic builds upon decades of experience between ARM, Gemalto and G&D in developing secure technology for connected devices. The launch of Trustonic marks a turning point in our connected world. It will enable us to trust our smart connected devices to protect us as they deliver essential services and innovative user experiences,” said Trustonic CEO Ben Cade.
The company has developed a GlobalPlatform compliant Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), which will offer a common security standard for connected devices. The TEE will be built upon ARM TrustZone technology found in many of today’s leading system-on-chips, combined with leading security software and management systems contributed by Gemalto and G&D. Services that require high trust in people’s connected devices can gain access to the TEE on demand.
Commenting on the launch, Martin Sendyk, SVP products at Irdeto, said: “Designing apps that require secure processing is currently not scalable due to the diversity of security found in today’s consumer electronic devices. Each has a separate security subsystem, or in many cases, no security subsystem at all. A standardised security ecosystem, like the one being launched by Trustonic is essential to enable a broad range of connected devices to playback high quality, premium content and to propel the true multi-screen entertainment experience that consumers demand.”
In addition to its Cambridge facility Trustonic will also have offices across Asia, Europe and North America.
