VinCSS to commercialize a FDO-standard IoT security solution

The VinCSS Internet Security Services JSC, a subsidiary of Vingroup Vietnam, has launched an IoT Security solution called VinCSS IoT FDO.

The solution utilizes the advantages of the FIDO Device Onboard (FDO), a unique protocol issued by the world’s Fast Identity Online Alliance (FIDO Alliance) to provide the IoT industry with a rapid and secure way to onboard any device to any device management system.

VinCSS’s new solution offers efficiency and security in deploying IoT

International Data Corporation (IDC) analysts estimate that the IoT market value will exceed the $1 trillion mark this year. Despite this rapid expansion, industry stakeholders remain concerned about infrastructure breaches. Eighty-five per cent of 170 IoT leaders polled in a survey responded that security issues continue to be a significant roadblock to IoT adoption.

In the context of an increasing need for solutions to ensure safety in IoT devices and to facilitate their deployment, VinCSS, a member of the FIDO Alliance, came up with its new VinCSS IoT FDO solution, which uses the FDO protocol to securely set up and configure IoT devices automatically. Developed by the FIDO Alliance, FDO is an automated onboarding protocol for IoT devices, leveraging asymmetric public key cryptography to provide the industrial IoT industry with a fast and secure way to onboard any device to any device management system. According to FIDO Alliance, fully automated device onboarding, which significantly helps facilitate the previously manual process, is the primary aspect of FDO. In addition, FDO makes the devices significantly more resistant to attack by substituting extremely secure cryptographic keys for generic password credentials.

VinCSS IoT FDO includes the following features: installation, deployment, expansion, operational management, and configuration of IoT devices. According to a published paper from the FIDO Alliance, the business benefits from the FDO standard include Simplicity, Flexibility, and Security.

Wide applicability, with a new generation of advanced security camera

VinCSS IoT FDO was wholly researched, developed, and mastered by VinCSS from inheriting and creatively applying the FDO protocol from the FIDO Alliance to enhance the level of trust during the IoT device onboarding process. The solution is suitable for various applications of IoT technology, such as automated factories, smart cities, logistics services, security cameras, smart cars, and all businesses with a complex digital infrastructure that scales up quickly and effectively.

VinCSS has cooperated with Pavana, a leading Vietnamese camera designer and manufacturer, to apply the VinCSS IoT FDO solution in its high-end security camera lines, thereby eliminating the risk of data leakage and information insecurity from devices.

According to Mr. Do Ngoc Duy Trac, CEO of VinCSS, the VinCSS IoT FDO solution is an extended application developed from the VinCSS FIDO2 Ecosystem, which helps activate, securely install, and manage configurations for up to thousands of IoT devices with time and cost efficiency, thereby increasing the efficiency of implementation and expansion and ensuring the safety of IoT projects. “This solution also helps prevent supply chain attacks, because the industry now has standards and tools to securely manage or validate IoT products from vendors and partners,” he added.