Giving IoT devices the extra protection it deserves

With the surge of connected devices in the home and public places, implementing security features for IoT devices is a need felt industry-wide. The QCA4020 chip aims to address these issues with robust security features, including secure boot, a trusted execution environment, storage security and key provisioning, wireless protocol security, and secure debugging. Because these technologies are integrated into the silicon, the QCA4020 can replace a separate, external security chip, which can help cut bill-of-materials costs all while offering extra protection to mitigate security threats and vulnerabilities.

In his Network World piece, Senior Vice President of product management for Qualcomm Technologies, Raj Talluri said: “While no connected system can be 100% end-to-end secure, hardware-based features can improve device protection in ways it is not possible with just software.”

The Qualcomm QCA4020/QCA4024 chips address the challenges of fragmentation and interoperability in the IoT industry using a singular framework that can simplify the way virtually all of our connected devices interact with one another.