Hardware security for mobile devices is fast becoming a priority market as
maturing applications for mobile finance or government-level use increasingly
demand security at the core. Trust hardware and secure boot for trusted
executions environments are necessary elements for such industries. Without this
security assurance, applications for mobile commerce, mobile money or wallet
will have some difficulty getting off the ground and finding adoption by the big
card payment providers.
There are a number of obstacles barring the way to the full dynamic emergence
of a hardware security market. Not least of which is the fragmented mobile
device landscape, with as many players on the silicon IP side as in OEM
manufacturing, led by ARM, Trustonic, and Samsung. This particular mobile
movement is also colliding head-on with long-standing efforts on the PC side
that is looking to adapt tried and tested methods to the mobile landscape, with
Intel and Microsoft pushing the boat. Specifications on both sides of the
spectrum are increasingly looking to answer the same problem, while not
specifically competing head-on. TEE, TPM, and UEFI are a few of those specs
looking to address the issue of intrinsic security within the device.
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