Trust...but verify *

*Ronald Reagan

To build a different world after this crisis, we will need even more trust among governments, companies, citizens. In this long journey, respecting the Intellectual Property is one milestone among many others.

It seems that we are not taking this path: in the context of Covid-19, the International Chamber of Commerce alerted us about an increase  in the production and manufacturing of fake and counterfeit goods, including in manufactured electronics products .

This is disappointing, though not a big surprise for OEM Executives for whom  software & IP protection has always been a major concern, on top of devices cloning.

Security technologies have been deployed for decades to protect data and software, including state-of-the art cryptography, digital signature, secure boot, obfuscation of executable, to name just a few examples. However, there are still some challenges when those solutions are deployed in embedded systems, including implementation, impacts on performance  and cost effectiveness.

In the emergence of a highly connected world, new solutions have been developed for software & IP protection at the device level, considering the constraints of embedded systems without compromising on security. Additionally, some players can now provide a full set of security solutions ensuring a seamless protection all along the “chain of trust”.

With a stronger “chain of trust”, we will spend less time to verify and more time to innovate!

You can read our position paper on IP Protection in our News at www.trusted-objects.com