Cisco Staffer Says Many Players Interested in IoT Security Plan
Many IoT players are interested in an alliance on device security, Russ Gyurek, Cisco director-Innovation Labs, told a CTA event in Santa Clara, California, last week. “I’ve talked to dozens of companies. Nobody has said this is a bad idea.…
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So I’ve got right now about 30 companies that are willing to be founders or start this. I don’t want it to be just another alliance. It needs to be very little cost and have a mission of driving this.” The proposal, which doesn’t yet have a name, is based heavily on manufacturer usage description specifications and bootstrapping remote secure key infrastructures protocol that is in the final stages of standards-setting at the Internet Engineering Task Force, said Gyurek. The alliance would promote self-certification. Cisco plans demonstrations at next month’s Cisco Live conference in Orlando, he said. “We’ve had a couple of discussions with service providers in that respect. They’re very interested in this, especially as 5G starts to become more online, because 5G promises massive IoT.”