Discretix Technologies, a.k.a., Sansa Security, was acquired by ARM, as was now announced. I have been working with Discretix since its day of establishment, 15 years ago. I have been serving as its CTO and as the head of its CTO Office since January 2012.

Discretix is a pure-play security provider in the embedded domain. Over the years it has migrated from producing hardware-only crypto solutions to producing hardware and software solutions for content protection, to providing a client-server solution for provisioning, and finally to launching a provisioning service and operation. Sticking with this company throughout those changes easily counts as one of the most special experiences in my career.

Today I attended CyberDay 2015, where I delivered a lecture titled “Challenges in Securing IoT”.

Some of the lecture was devoted to discussing the issues mentioned in this post. Other issues were discussed as well.