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Mohan Kulkarni, Product Manager,
PMD Solutions
Mohan Kulkarni has 18 years of
experience in Embedded Product
development. He uses his experience
and knowledge to lead a large team and
bring excellent products to market.
Mohan Kulkarni, Product Manager at PMD Solutions, stresses that device security
must be considered at the earliest stages of the Internet of Things (IoT) design
and engineering process. "It's usually a top-down methodology that begins
with system-level architecture," he says. "Hardware and data protection are
critical areas from a technical risk perspective." The process involves planning,
presenting the plan for approval, and then executing it.
To address those key areas of risk, Kulkarni sees three good design practices that
should be a basic part of secure IoT design:
Protection of intellectual property (IP). "A significant challenge for engineers
is maintaining their IP after their product enters the public domain," he says.
This statement is especially true for products that target competitive markets in
developing countries. It's important to build tamper-proof products, but that is
not always easy. He notes, "Tamperproofing can focus on the mechanical design
of the product or the way the product broadcasts its data. Different security
features come into the picture, but it can be difficult for a company to make a
tamperproof product."
"Hardware and data protection are critical areas
from a technical risk perspective."
When Designing Secure Devices,
Don't Forget the Supply Chain
