“Advanced data security is a key feature in our product roadmap that will ensure we will be able to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and capture new markets. How can we add strong security to our device and ensure a solid ROI?”
Challenge
Faced with increasing competition and eroding customer-rate structures, wireless handheld manufacturers seek to generate new revenue by offering the enterprise market and wireless service providers built-in security functionality.
At the same time, they seek to minimize their administrative costs and ensure only their own applications are used on their devices.
Solution
In constrained devices, the ideal architecture has a cryptographic engine at its core and a common set of APIs capable of supporting a wide variety of security requirements, allowing developers to embed interoperable security protocols into their devices quickly and easily.
The Certicom® Security Architecture™ for Mobility is a comprehensive, cross-platform security solution for developers, designed to address the business and technical challenges of embedding security in mobile handsets. It allows handset manufacturers to build secure applications that can be quickly and cost-effectively embedded across multiple families and generations of devices, and rounds out the ability of mobile processor vendors to deliver designs that are optimized for strong, high performance handset security.
The Certicom Security Architecture for Mobility consists of a modular set of cryptographic providers, services and optimized board support packagesrequired to integrate complete security that leverages both software and hardware. These offer simple, proven APIs that can be used to enable hardware-level security functionality. Cryptography directly implemented in silicon offers the highest level of integrity and performance.
You can also integrate security functionality into the OS with APIs exposed to other applications. Security Builder developer toolkits are ideally suited to be the cryptographic service provider for all leading handheld OSs as well as the proprietary ones used to power other devices.
To make it easier for the companies who want to "push" software updates out to their customers and employees, Security Builder developer toolkits or a product like Certicom CodeSign can also be used to "sign" the code and ensure that only those authorized receive the updates.
By implementing new security technology into a device, the wireless handheld manufacturer will open a new revenue stream, differentiate their product offering, improve the customer experience and customers’ perception of value and focus on core competencies.