New Development Provides Solution to Connected Devices

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The worldwide number of IoT-connected devices is projected to increase to 43 billion by 2023, according to McKinsey. Others predict higher numbers: 100 per person, or one trillion by 2025. However, the devices are exposed to a wide variety of cyber threats. 

Hardware designers are changing their industry standards and direction. This change enables hackers anytime access to hardware – even when it is powered off. 

Firmare is the security soft spot that is typically awarded just 1% of protection budgets and continues to offer easy ingress for criminals. Aviation, automobiles and home safety systems can all be targeted.

A few lines of code embedded in the firmware is all it takes to offer multi-layer, virtually impenetrable protection for the world’s hugely vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

An open-source mathematical model that can detect threats autonomously at speeds significantly faster than any existing solution has been developed by Edge security specialist Exein.

Platform agnostic, the Exein Core is a developer tool operating as an embedded component from within hardware. Once grafted into firmware, Exein Core uses convolutional neural networking to learn the legitimate behaviors of a device. Armed with that knowledge, it can then detect anomalies and external threats at unprecedented speeds without the need for cloud computing support.

Exein Core, applied to the firmware of any and all IoT equipment at the manufacturing stage or retrofitted to existing devices, can stop cyber attacks. “This is a world-changing product that represents an entirely new way of approaching IT security,” according to the company cited by einnews.com.