Silicon Labs Gets IoT Security Certifications for Multiprotocol Wireless SoCs

Silicon Labs hardware and software got IoT security certifications from PSA Certified and the ioXt Alliance, said the company Wednesday. Its Secure Vault, a set of security features designed to guard against IoT security threats in connected devices, will be available in the company’s multiprotocol wireless SoCs, due Sept. 9, it said. The EFR32MG21B SoC is the first radio to get PSA Certified Level 2 accreditation for providing protection against scalable software attacks, said Andy Rose, chief system architect. Silicon Labs' xG22 Thunderbird and EFR32MG21B development kits got SmartCert security certification status from the ioXt Alliance. IoT security threats are “continuously evolving, and the demands on IoT product developers to keep up can be difficult -- particularly in low cost, resource-constrained IoT products,” said Matt Johnson, senior vice president-IoT. Customer data and cloud-based business models are “increasingly targeted for costly hacks, and IoT security requirements are quickly becoming law.”