Pioneering cyber security business, Trustonic, has announced its new membership
of RISC-V International to provide increased access to hardware backed security.
Established in 2010, RISC-V International is the global non-profit home of the open
standard RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture [ISA], related specifications, and
stakeholder community.
Now boasting more than 4,500 members across 70 different countries, RISC-V
enables its growing community to develop custom processors for a variety of
applications, from embedded designs to supercomputers.
Established in 2012, Trustonic delivers advanced technology systems to drive
innovation, protect revenue, and enhance security for device manufacturers
worldwide.
Through its advanced Trusted Execution Environment [TEE] Kinibi, Trustonic
successfully protects 2.5 billion connected devices and counts the world’s leading
automotive manufacturers, financial institutions, and mobile operators as its
customers.
In announcing its new membership of RISC-V, Trustonic can now support the
community with hardware backed security for chip design and manufacture. Aside
from providing access to a proven, pre-integrated Secure OS solution underpinned
by Kinibi, this new membership will enable the RISC-V community to adhere to the
forthcoming RISC-V security standards for A class deployments, set to be
announced in the near future.
Andrew Till, General Manager of Secure Platform for Trustonic, confirmed:
“I am delighted share that we have joined the RISC-V community. RISC-V has built
up tremendous momentum over the last decade and we see many of our customers
actively planning to embrace RISC-V solutions. By becoming a member and working
together on the standards for hardware backed security we will be able to ensure
that silicon vendors and device OEMs alike can implement advanced security
measures knowing that their investments will be based on open standards for the
long-term.
By adding RISC-V support to our existing ARM solutions, we are , we can provide
our customers with the freedom to select the platform that is right them while being
able to leverage and re-use all their existing investments in our Kinibi Secure OS
platform. This is something the team and I are incredibly excited about as Trustonic
continues its journey a leading, global force in embedded security.”
Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Trustonic was initially created from a joint venture
between ARM, Thales, and G&D.
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