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Inside Secure announces industry’s broadest set of FIPS-certified embedded security offerings
May 2013 by Marc Jacob
INSIDE Secure announces that its SafeZone encryption toolkit, a key sub-component of the company’s embedded security software products, has received Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The certification expands the company’s portfolio of FIPS-certified hardware security modules and secure microcontrollers to include software offerings for securing data in transit over SSL/DTLS and IPSEC, as well as data at rest on Android (TM) devices. With these additional FIPS-certified offerings, INSIDE now gives OEMs and application developers even greater ability to secure appliances, applications, mobile devices and servers in accordance with stricter government security requirements.
According to Simon Blake-Wilson, this enhancement to INSIDE’s line up of FIPS-certified offerings also illustrates how the recent Embedded Security Systems acquisition is supporting INSIDE’s strategy to provide its customers with the most complete assortment of hardware- and software-based security solutions.
FIPS 140-2 is a globally recognised U.S. government security standard for securing commercial, government and defence applications. U.S and Canadian government telecommunications systems already are required to use FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to secure data. As more industries are categorised as critical infrastructure and become targets of cyber attacks, their applications, devices and communications networks will also be required to meet these stricter government mandates and recognised standards. Recent directives in the U.S. and Europe seek to expand this requirement to more industries - including finance, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, communications and other utilities - all of which are considered so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating effect on economic security or public health and safety.
With its broad portfolio of FIPS-certified embedded hardware and software solutions, INSIDE reduces project costs, complexity, risk and time to market. As globally recognised experts in standards and cryptography, INSIDE supports the leading mobile devices, as well as client and server-side operating systems, with proven integrations, extensive documentation and experienced developer-level technical support. INSIDE puts technologists on the most efficient development path, and has helped many equipment manufacturers significantly cut product development time.
