Secure Your IoT Devices with Transparent Security

As IoT devices become more decentralized and self-sufficient, they are gaining the ability to operate with increasing levels of autonomy and independence. This shift is enabling new capabilities like instant transactions, negotiations, and settlements directly between intelligent devices. These advancements offer high-value targets for attackers – challenging the traditional approaches to physical hardware protection. A new hardware security paradigm is urgently needed to address the requirements of autonomous IoT devices.

Why Security Matters for IoT

IoT devices often operate in diverse and dynamic environments, making them a target for cyber threats such as unauthorized access, data breaches, and firmware tampering. Implementing strong cryptographic solutions ensures:

• Data Integrity – Prevents manipulation of transmitted information.
• Secure Authentication – Ensures only authorized devices and users can access your network.
• End-to-End Encryption – Protects data in transit and at rest.

Tropic Square’s Approach

At Tropic Square, we believe in full transparency when it comes to security. Our open-source, verifiable hardware security chip, TROPIC01, provides a reliable foundation for IoT applications, allowing businesses and developers to:

• Eliminate Backdoors – Full transparency ensures no hidden vulnerabilities.
• Enable Trust Through Open Design – Anyone can audit and verify our security implementations.
• Achieve Long-Term Reliability – Future-proof security with modular, updatable solutions.

Key Business Benefits of Having an Open Architecture Secure Element

• Continuous Security – Ongoing testing and auditing of the chip’s security by the network of security experts and the open-source community – including reactive resolution to any issues.
• Faster Time-to-Market – Open-source lowers development costs by providing engineers with direct access to design details and rationales, accelerating integration, prototyping, and overall development.
• Reduced Development Cost – Unrestricted use of all Tropic Square software components for solution development.
• Customer Reassurance – Verifiable claims of having hardware with no backdoors, hidden features, and enclosed vulnerabilities.
• Cyber Resilience Compliance – Meets evolving market requirements for cyber resilience by ensuring continuous security updates, transparency, and proactive vulnerability management, helping businesses stay ahead of regulatory demands.

Partner with Us for a Secure Future

TROPIC01 brings the highest level of physical security and digital identity protection by incorporating:

• Tamper Resistance & Attack Sensors – Protection against physical attacks, unauthorized modifications, and built-in detection mechanisms to respond to potential threats in real-time.
• Side-Channel Attack Mitigation – Defense mechanisms against power analysis and electromagnetic attacks.
• Fault Injection Countermeasures – Resistance to intentional disruptions aimed at altering device behavior, including protection against laser fault injection attacks.

Beyond security, TROPIC01 enables new business models by incorporating a secure trusted execution environment, hardware root of trust at the silicon level in electronic devices. This foundational security feature supports various use cases:

• Subscriptions – Secure provisioning and authentication for subscription-based services.
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Transactions – Secure and trusted transactions between connected devices.

• Device Identification and Attestation
• Offloading and Hardware Acceleration of cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
• Support and easy integration into IoT platforms, the customer's PKI, including the implementation of offline Certificate Authorities (CAs) and secure PKI clients.
• Secure storage for different types of user data, including certificates, files, passwords, etc., with no limitations on the types of data objects stored in the protected memory.
• Strong hardware-backed authentication of devices with pairing keys and secure PIN verification via the unique Keccak-based MAC-and-Destroy scheme (patent pending).

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Ready to enhance your IoT security?

Contact us today to learn how TROPIC01 can safeguard your products and ensure long-term resilience in an increasingly connected world.

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