Sectigo, a provider of automated digital identity management and web security solutions, has partnered with ReFirm Labs to help device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) ensure security and compliance. Under the agreement, Sectigo’s customers will now have access to ReFirm Lab’s firmware scanning tools to analyze device firmware and detect known vulnerabilities, out-of-date open source components, hard-code encryption keys, expired certificates, and potential zero-day vulnerabilities.
ReFirm Labs’ Centrifuge Platform provides an automated platform to analyze IoT / embedded device firmware to identify potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities before OEMs release firmware updates, and before deployment onto device operators’ networks. Sectigo IoT Identity Platform is the industry’s first end-to-end IoT security platform, offering both embedded device identity and integrity technologies, as well as purpose-built certificate issuance and management.
By combining the two platforms, OEMs using both Sectigo and ReFirm Labs platforms are able to:
-Create more secure embedded software
-Guarantee the integrity of device software and validity of certificates at boot, and in software updates
-Protect the device by operating through secure boot, secure storage, and embedded firewall technologies
-Detect hard-code encryption keys, expired certificates, and other security vulnerabilities
-Ensure compliance with a growing number of IoT security standards, such as NIST 8259, OWASP IoT Top 10, and ISA/IEC 62443
