German electronics company Infineon’s Optiga Trust M Express enables hardware-based security for IoT devices every step of the way from manufacturing, through cloud provisioning, to field deployment.

The cryptographic identity of Optiga Trust M Express is provisioned in a certified and secured Infineon fab. It is protected from exposure at any stage during the product lifetime.

The off-the-shelf offering eliminates the need for OEMs to build and maintain highly secured manufacturing facilities for device personalisation, allowing them to simplify production flow, accelerate time to market and reduce cost.

In IoT systems, trust is the foundation for all interactions between devices and cloud services. For this reason, each device must have a secured unique identity and must be able to prove it is what it claims to be. Additionally, OEMs are facing the challenge of having to implement this secured ID for hundreds of thousands of devices.

Optiga Trust M Express is offered combined with Infineon’s Cirrent Cloud ID, a cloud service that automates IoT device certificate registration and the provisioning of the device in the product cloud at scale. This combination provides high-end security with a hardware anchor of trust used to connect IoT devices easily to the cloud.

Developers can securely provision IoT devices and connect them to the cloud, while enhancing them with security right from the production line. As a result, the cloud onboarding process of IoT devices in the user’s product cloud is simplified, eliminating the need for manual intervention, thus preventing human error. Thereby, users can save time and resources, and make the process highly scalable.

Optiga Trust M Express is available now with an IoT security development kit for evaluation and design-in. In addition, developers can use design-in application notes and host side integration support without signing a non-disclosure agreement. Infineon also offers trainings for the security products.