Accelerating Data Security and Manufacturing Production for Medical Sensors by 20x with nTropy.io and Thales

nTropy.io is a Thales Technology Partner with established PKI and IoT expertise providing both advisory and implementation services. This article explores how nTropy successfully designed a solution leveraging Thales Luna HSM to accelerate key injection material for wearable medical devices by 20x.

While wearable medical devices save lives, they also pose a unique set of cybersecurity challenges. Being able to track, analyze, and use accurate information is critical to ensuring a patient’s well-being. Each device relies on wireless data transmission to relay collected data back to the patient’s phone or other monitoring tool.

Unfortunately, wireless data is notoriously vulnerable to hacks and exploits. A potential hacker can compromise the device’s integrity and safety, or access confidential patient records stored on servers.

For these reasons, medical device security is a top priority. To better protect against these threats, medical device producers increasingly seek to protect their devices using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI is a trusted and widely used cryptographic practice that protects both data and user integrity. First, it encrypts sensitive data transmission between medical devices and any host system. Second, PKI also relies on key and certificate protocols to verify access credentials for devices and users.

To protect medical devices with PKI, each device needs to have certain components (certificates, keys) embedded during the manufacturing process. However, neither medical device producers nor contract manufacturers are typically specialized or knowledgeable about how exactly this trusted process should happen.

This is where 3^rd-party companies such as nTropy.io come into play, given their PKI and IOT expert

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