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Trustonic Completes FIPS 140-2 Certification
September 2017 by Marc Jacob
Trustonic’s cryptographic library has been validated in line with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2. This new certification ensures that apps developed using Trustonic’s security technology meet the stringent security requirements implemented by both the US government and other regulated industries.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued FIPS 140-2 to coordinate the standards for cryptography modules that include both hardware and software components. The standard relates to services that collect, store, transfer, share and disseminate sensitive information.
Already embedded into more than one billion devices, Trustonic’s Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)* hardware security technology offers a secure operating system, isolated from the normal device operating system. This makes it, and trusted applications residing in it, immune to all software threats resident on the device and enables advanced device security, such as biometric authentication and secure PIN entry. A unique Root of Trust, also embedded into the devices ensures that a trusted identity is preserved, preventing fraudulent use or cloning.
