Turnkey solutions streamline mobile security

22nd February 2016

Jordan Mulcare

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Mobile security is poised for growth as global mobile data traffic from smartphones is expected to increase ten-fold between 2014 and 2020. To provide the market with turnkey mobile security solutions, Infineon Technologies has introduced OPTIGA Mobile. The brand extends Infineon’s OPTIGA range of embedded security solutions with dedicated services around mobile security. OPTIGA Mobile helps mobile device manufacturers and OS providers to improve the security of their products while reducing investment in security critical production equipment and processes.

“With OPTIGA Mobile, we provide all building blocks for implementing a hardware-based Root of Trust in mobile devices”, said Juergen Spaenkuch, head of platform security at Infineon. “Our customers can now seamlessly integrate our chips into existing production and logistic lines. This gives them a competitive advantage and helps to maximise mobile security to the benefit of end users.”

Embedding security controllers into mobile devices is a challenging task: device manufacturers and OS providers face a broad range of security-critical processes as well as special logistic requirements for packaging and transport. With its OPTIGA Mobile offering, Infineon delivers customised turnkey security solutions and services directly to the customers’ production site. All security relevant production steps are handled within Infineon’s certified and secured manufacturing premises.

OPTIGA Mobile services include among others:

In-house generation and injection of keys (symmetric and asymmetric) and (CA-signed) public/private certificates
Pre-loading of customer provided static and dynamic data
Chip-individual code and data
Customer-specific marking and labelling on packages
Direct shipments to handset manufacturers or customer manufacturing sites

Infineon is a trusted supplier of mobile security solutions. Market giants such as Samsung and Lenovo use Infineon’s leading embedded security solutions to protect sensitive user data in smartphones, tablets as well as smart wearable devices.

Visit Infienon at Mobile World Congress 2016, Barcelona, February 22-25^th, 2016. Infineon will be presenting at its booth 6C41in hall 6a range of inspiring solutions designed to meet rising performance and security demands in a connected world. Demonstrations include embedded security for connected cars, RF front-end solutions for improved mobile user experience and authentication for smart devices.