PSA certified kit commercialises trust-based IoT devices

This is Arrow's first kit to meet PSA Certified standards and was created in collaboration with Infineon.IoT device developers can rely on this platform to align with accepted industry and government standards for electronic security and help ensure compliance with emerging IoT legislation, including NIST 8259A and EN 303 645. The kit has been evaluated by SGS Brightsight,an independent, internationally leading safety assessment laboratory, and meets PSA Certified Level 1standards.

The kit helps developers get their projects off to a fast start. It includes Infineon's Pioneer IoT PSoC 64 Secure AWS Kit, Arrow's Sensor Shield PSoC 6 IoT, Shield2Go kits, and the AWS Cloud with certified functional APIs and an integrated dashboard for monitoring and visualisation. The PSA Level 2 certified PSoC 64 microcontroller offers a silicon-level "root of trust" (RoT) that provides a foundation for secure services such as cryptography and secure storage. The development kit is a validated reference design that has been designed with end-to-end security between sensors and the cloud in mind.

In addition, as the first-ever PSA-certified platform to use Amazon's FreeRTOS, the PsoC 64 Security Workshop IoT SDK simplifies the programming, deployment, and management of IoT devices, while facilitating a secure connection to AWS cloud services for the edge.

The methodology provided by PSA Certified, combined with Arrow's end-to-end support, minimises risk to developers, reduces costs, and accelerates time to market by providing security certification for the final product. The PSA Certified approach was co-founded by Arm and incorporates security objectives that help ensure consistent cyber protection and span the entire device lifecycle.

Developers using the kit can be confident that their devices comply with PSA Certified's 10 security objectives, including ensuring that devices are uniquely identifiable and can be securely certified, that only authorised software can be used, and that secure isolation and updating are supported. while preventing unauthorised rollbacks. This approach also promotes interaction, allowing for tracking and perceiving of the security status, as well as restricting the secure processing environment to a minimal set of secure services. Users can be confident that they have solved all these difficulties, while taking advantage of the PSoC 64 root of trust and trusted Firmware-M (TF-M) approved for Arm Cortex-M processors.

"Industry collaboration and standardization is critical to securing the future of IoT," said David Maidment, general manager of the secure device ecosystem at Arm. "Arrow is leading the way in developing PSA-certified designs that device manufacturers can use to integrate security into the core of end products, enabling widespread security adoption and reducing the barriers and costs associated with security. »

"We are pleased that Arrow Electronics has selected Infineon's PSA-certified PSoC 64 Secured microcontrollers for its PSA-certified development kit," said Erik Wood, Director of IoT Secure MCU Products at Infineon. "We continue to work closely with Arrow to provide the best possible time-to-market and user experience for their customers."