Platform allows smartphones and wearables to authenticate with secure IoT devices, home-automation applications, and secure data storage via Bluetooth Smart® technology
Geneva, Switzerland and Seattle, WA, January 4, 2016 - STMicroelectronics (STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and ClevX, an intellectual-property innovator and technology developer for portable storage and mobile device manufacturers, today announced the world`s first DataLock®-secured encrypted portable storage media with Bluetooth Smart wireless user authentication.
For the first time, users can interact with secure portable storage (full-disk, XTS-AES 256-bit encryption) from their smartphones or wearable devices where all user data on the drive is encrypted and can be locked/unlocked using single- or multi-factor authentication. The technology is ideally suited for consumer, corporate, and industrial applications such as healthcare, home automation and security, secure-access control systems, and portable data storage.
"IoT-device authentication has long required trade-offs among security, convenience and mobility. The ClevX DataLock BT-secured portable storage provides the capability to actually enjoy the best of all worlds," said Luca Difalco, VP of Marketing at STMicroelectronics` Americas Region. "While we`re demonstrating the capability in an easy-to-use hardware-encrypted secure USB-Drive, the elegance and versatility of the solution is provided by an application that we can add to our BlueNRG device to make lock-down security accessible via Bluetooth Smart."
ST and ClevX have reference designs for secure portable storage media, including Flash, hard-disk, and solid-state disk drives. These designs use ST`s Bluetooth Smart chips (BlueNRG) and ultra-low-power STM32L0 MCUs and are immediately available for licensing and partnerships, including both ST/ClevX-based hardware and firmware in addition to the related smartphone and wearables apps.
The ST/ClevX reference designs are OS-host agnostic. USB drives with the DataLock BT technology operate across all computer platforms and embedded systems while providing various easy-to-use security layers (including a wireless lock/unlock mechanism, phone as an authentication factor, phone + PIN, or phone + PIN + userID/location/time). The reference designs support USB Remote Management, which can be critical for corporate deployments and remote password resets, drive disabling and erasing, and successful implementation of corporate-wide policies.