Creating Secure IoT Devices

Five years ago, my research team set out on a mission to make it possible for any device manufacturer to create secure IoT devices. While getting security right is hard in any domain, it is especially hard in the domain of IoT, a domain where a passion to get things done quickly often runs up against the stark realities of the threat landscape of the modern internet. Our imagination and mission were fired by the possibilities of combining new silicon with a new OS and new cloud services to solve IoT security better than anyone before us. While we haven’t yet fully achieved our mission of securing every IoT device on the planet, we’re traveled far down the path. In the process, we’ve documented the Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices, built multiple chips, enabled companies such as Starbucks to deploy IoT devices with confidence in their security, and benefitted from multiple red team exercises involving some of the best security researchers on the planet. In this talk, I’ll give a quick introduction to IoT for systems people, share what we’ve learned so far, and share our perspective on the future of IoT security.

Date:
Speakers:
Galen Hunt
Affiliation:
Microsoft Research