Discreet Applications - IoT

Discreet Edge Applications

Current Security Situation

Insufficient privacy protection—failure to protect private information that is stored on the device and connected ecosystems.

Insecure data transfer and storage—such as the lack of access control and encryption during the movement of data.

Lack of device management—on devices deployed in production; results in poor security support.

Insecure default settings—the inability to fix insecure settings creates exploits in devices and systems.

Lack of physical hardening—creates a larger attack surface, which threat actors can leverage to take control of a device or system.

Intrude into local networks and steal, delete or ransom private data
Block or alter websites
Upload viruses and start Denial-of-Service (DOS) attacks
Alter behavior of a device
• Can have fatal consequences in case of devices such as heart implants (US Vice President Dick Cheney’s Heart Implant)

Major Cyber Security Challenges

Tamper protection/detection
• Ensure that the edge device and the local server have not been tampered
Authentication and Authorization
• Who has access to the data and different components of the solution?
Insider threat
Encryption for Data at Rest and Data in Motion/Flight
• Encryption Key Management
• Unique key for each component
• Key catalog – keeping track of the components/keys/authorized-users
Privacy considerations

Discreet Edge's Market Differentiation

Market Differentiation of Discreet Edge’s solution over other Internet of Things (IoT) solutions:

Allows each device to have its own ‘data owner’
Each device has its own unique key - For compliance of new laws
Can be implemented in software only, SE chips, PUF chips, RISC V, ARM, inside TEE, Java cards, RTOS, Linux, android etc, at a fraction of the market cost
Keys can be transparently migrated from one implementation to the other
Supports device attestation
Can be implemented on the edge device, gateways, and on the servers
SoPs are scalable to millions of users and devices
The solution is cloud-agnostic and transparently supports multi-cloud (AWS, Alibaba, Azure, etc) implementation without any changes.

Discreet Edge's Market Differentiation

Market Differentiation of Discreet Edge’s solution over other Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions:

Seamless compliance with cross-border country laws for privacy and data segmentation
Each segment of the supply-chain can be secured and managed by owners in each geography (country)
• Owners have the authority of revoke and provide access to data for their part of the supply-chain
• Owners can be partners, contractors, or suppliers
Solution can be segmented and hosted on different clouds for different geographical regions (countries) and can be centrally managed
SoPs are simple and scalable to millions of users, data segments, and devices across multiple geographies (countries)