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The Synergy platform offers optimized commercial-grade software with standard APIs that simplify how interfaces are made with hardware security and encryption features. Application frameworks help streamline otherwise tricky wireless driver integration with a uniform interface between the application code and lower level drivers. This level of abstraction decreases complexity and makes it easier to integrate networking stacks, or to switch out or drop in drivers as needed. How Do I Secure My Device Against Multiple Security Threats? Today's cyberthreat landscape is filled with multiple bad actors and risks. Exploits and attack vectors await the unprepared and unprotected. To safeguard a device against multiple security threats requires securing the device's identity through hardware- based key generation. This identity can be securely stored in internal flash and leveraged to create trust, and provide privacy when added to designs and configured for target applications. Establishing a strong device identity allows every IoT device to be singularly identified and authenticated as unique. This enables devices to be individually secured and to engage in encrypted communication with other secured devices and services. Strong device identity safeguards against multiple security threats through layered IoT security protections (Figure 3) by providing the following features: • Trust. Once connected to a network, the device must authenticate to create trust between other devices, services and users so that it can securely exchange encrypted data and information. Trust starts with properly authenticating the device to ensure it is a legitimate device and not a counterfeit. • Privacy. The data and information captured and shared within IoT networks often includes data that is sensitive, personal or financial, which must be kept private and secure to meet regulatory compliance. Secured device identity provides the keystone to ensure confidentiality when IoT devices and systems connect to share data. • Integrity. Ensuring that data shared within networks has not been altered is a key element of layered security. Data integrity is an often-overlooked requirement, but connected devices and systems rely on authenticity (trust), confidentiality (privacy), and integrity of the information being transmitted. Digital data security is also a top priority for safeguarding against multiple security threats. Data at rest refers to data not actively in motion between devices or networks, usually parked in SRAM or non-volatile storage. To secure data at rest, Synergy MCUs offer data access controls, including read, write, read-write and write-once protections. Controlling access to stored data reduces the attack surface and increases system security. | 4 | | 15 | Renesas Synergy MCU SCE Hardware Security Features by Series Figure 3: Renesas Synergy MCUs as available in the Synergy platform. (Source: Renesas Electronics Corp.)

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