EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SECURITY

SEARCH-LAB has long-time experience and international market recognition with its special expertise in security evaluation of embedded devices. Being a university spin-off, the laboratory not only has a strong research background, but also has access to the cutting-edge university infrastructure for hardware engineering, analysis and evaluation.

Smart devices handle more and more sensitive personal and company data. To provide necessary protection, almost all chipset vendors offer a wide set of built-in security solutions, such as secure boot loaders, integrity protection, authenticated firmware update, reliable device identification, on-chip encryption solutions and secure key storage.

Since even the smallest design or implementation bug can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities, the security evaluation not only requires experienced professionals with deep chipset level knowledge, adequate tools and methodologies from the evaluation laboratory, but also requires continuous research on the latest attack technologies.

SEARCH-LAB is dedicated to offer the highest level of embedded systems security evaluation services in these respects.

Application areas

• Mobile phones and hand-held devices – SIM-lock, IMEI protection, flash integrity protection
• Set-top-boxes - security of pay-per-view and video-on-demand services, premium channels
• Identification and payment devices – smart cards, biometric identification devices, electronic payment services
• Automotive and aviation industry – car alarm systems, integrity and authenticity of flight data recorder units (FDR)
• Game consoles SW copy protection – MMC protection, Blu-Ray copy protection, security of Massively Multiplayer Games