Embedded Technologies & Services
Network & System Security
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
Related Terminology
embedded devices • limited communications channels • network-enabled weaponry • situational awareness support systems • intellectual property protections • secure communications • advanced metering infrastructure • SCADA security • embedded software development • embedded hardware development • radio communications • network communications • cyber security • elliptic curve cryptography
