Rick Merritt, EETimes
4/23/2015 07:00 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO — The Internet of Things, along with everything else, is insecure. The U.S. government wants to help with that and other security problems — if you still trust them.
Those were two of several messages from the annual RSA Conference here.
“We have a long way to go in IoT security just to bring designs up to the not-yet-adequate state of PC security,” Steve Hanna, co-chair of the IoT committee at the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an industry alliance setting security standards for nearly a decade.
Hana was one of a handful of experts who gave a half-day seminar showing at RSA. They demoed ways cost-constrained embedded systems could adapt the group’s approach to providing a hardware-backed root of trust, something well established in x86-based PCs and servers.