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Network and System Security

Embedded Technologies and Services

 

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The applied research and development of security solutions for embedded, network, and cyber-physical systems is being addressed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a recognized leader in the field.

 

Embedded Technologies

SwRI engineers provide expertise in numerous technologies relevant to embedded systems security, such as:

  • Secure boot techniques

  • Secure firmware updates

  • Secure sockets layer / transport layer security (SSL/TLS)

  • Data encryption standard (DES)

  • Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (RSA) algorithm

  • Elliptic curve cryptography

  • Trusted platform modules

  • Mutual authentication

  • Embedded public key infrastructure (PKI)

  • Information integrity

  • Nonrepudiation of information changes

  • Role-based access control

  • Digital rights management

Embedded Systems Services Provided

Techniques used by SwRI engineers to implement embedded security include:

  • System definition

    • Operational concept

    • Requirements analysis

  • Device vulnerability assessments

  • Comprehensive security design

    • Embedded

    • Communications

    • Enterprise

  • Security technology selection and trade space analysis

    • Standards

    • COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) components

    • Open-source software

    • Encryption

    • Public key infrastructure

    • Performance impact of alternative security implementations

    • Computational resource and environmental constraints

  • Hardware/software design and development

    • Trusted system development

For more information about our embedded technologies services and capabilities, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Galen Rasche at grasche@swri.org or (210) 522-6416.

 

systemsecurity.swri.org

 

Contact Information

Galen Rasche

Network and System Security

(210) 522-6416

grasche@swri.org

systemsecurity.swri.org

Related Terminology

embedded devices

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embedded software development

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cyber security

elliptic curve cryptography

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March 23, 2010