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Sternum Launches Advanced Detection System for Real-Time Visibility into Security and Analytics of IoT Devices
October 2020 by Marc Jacob
Sternum announced today the launch of its Advanced Detection System (ADS), an agentless data analytics solution that can be seamlessly embedded onto a wide array of IoT devices. With its analysis of data gleaned from closed source binaries from within a device, ADS is the first and only product capable of providing manufacturers with a resource-light method for detecting vulnerabilities and exploitations that pose a threat, all while enhancing data analytic capabilities to enable better performing devices.
40 billion IoT devices are predicted to be in use by 2025, yet until now, manufacturers have had to rely on agent-based solutions, which are resource-heavy. Sternum breaks from this traditional and cumbersome approach by offering an agentless monitoring solution that can be easily injected into a device’s code. The solution can effectively detect all suspicious events and attempts to breach a device, as well as further garner proprietary insights about a device’s internal operations, software functions, and third party code, long a blind spot for device manufacturers across the board.
Because ADS operates from within a device’s code, the solution can detect not only software bugs, but also flaws and vulnerabilities that affect device security and that are excessively common in unmanaged Bluetooth-capable devices.
ADS’s value was most recently proven following its successful detection of BLESA (Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack)-type exploitation attempt. BLESA, a logical vulnerability arising from authentication issues in the device reconnection process and currently affecting billions of IoT devices, is one of many logical vulnerabilities that ADS can detect in real-time using its algorithmic cybersecurity engine.
ADS is scalable, the only solution on the market that can sit on IoT devices running RTOS, and the only post-market solution for legacy devices. It is applicable to a wide range of IoT devices – low-end, high-end, Linux-based, and more – with no configurations or changes to existing code required.
The ADS platform joins Sternum’s Embedded Integrity Verification (EIV) solution. When utilized together, both ADS and EIV work symbiotically, the former continuously collecting and monitoring cyber and operational events, while the latter proactively prevents attack attempts in real-time.
Sternum recently secured $6.5 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding raised to $10 million since being founded in 2018. Sternum has already partnered with public enterprises including Telit (AIM: TCM), as well as a leading global medical device manufacturer, to provide first-of-its-kind endpoint security for life saving IoT devices.
