New-Tech Europe | May 2017

Security and Reliability Design for SSD in IoT Era

Precyan Lee – Product Manager, Advantech

In this Everything is Connected IoT era, massive data generated from many kinds of internet connected devices. Which is also implying the security risk of IT system is much higher than before, even beyond our imagination. For example, in 2016, a team of hackers managed to take remote control of Tesla and manipulate the devices inside the car, even hit the brakes from 19 KM away. In 2017, a “white-hat hacker” sent out 150,000 print jobs in 24 hours which printed ASCII art. All these “innovative” internet attacks and the “creativities” from the hackers are really the warnings of our public safety, which could be exposed to risks because of the insufficient protection of IT devices. Although these cases are more about

kinds of the handheld devices and 3C products, the secondary market of this kind of the storage IC also emerged. All kinds of non-original package IC, even second hand IC are overwhelmed in the market already. However, no matter data collection or big data analysis in the cloud, the whole eco-system of IoT applications is about the value of data. If emphasizing too much on cost and apply Flash IC from secondary market, which risks the reliability of whole system and lowering the expected value of data. Strict production quality control for excellent SSD product quality yield In industrial applications, compare with consumer products, per batch

the safety of network connection and communication protocols, but storage medias in each layer of IoT structure which carry data and remain system operation, the reliability and security is even more critical. In this article, we will be discussing this topic from storage hardware reliability, data security, and application flexibility. Great oaks from little acorns grow, reliable SSD is all about Flash NAND Flash is widely adopted in IoT applications as storage device, which is the storage media that record the data with proper arrangement from storage controller IC. Hence, the selection of IC defined most of the reliability already. With the incremental usage of Flash IC in all

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