IoTopia Task Force

The IoTopia Task Force is co-chaired by Sebastian Hans from Oracle and Russ Gyurek from Cisco. All GlobalPlatform members are eligible to participate in this group.

The goal of the IoTopia Task Force is to accelerate IoT deployment by providing best practice references for IoT security, guidelines, testing and certification. It does this by defining and evaluating the business and technical requirements of existing and emerging secure services, required by consumer and industrial products in an increasingly connected world.

This involves maintaining and developing GlobalPlatform’s IoTopia Framework, which is a practical implementation guide to secure IoT devices across all markets and in line with global requirements. The vision is to create an open and standardized approach to secure IoT device management, utilizing GlobalPlatform technologies across four key pillars:

1. Secure-by-Design – defines how GlobalPlatform-secured components and Trusted Platform Service (TPS) APIs can be used with existing secure by design standards.
2. Device Intent – GlobalPlatform’s MUD File Service leverages IETF’s framework and uniform resource identifier (URI) to outline device intent, and help device manufacturers publish, in a unique location, the MUD file library associated with their products.
3. Autonomous, Scalable, Secure Onboarding – IoTopia will offer an open, standards-based secure onboarding process to streamline network administration, based on open standards, such as Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures (BRSKI).
4. Device Lifecycle Management – provides governance to cover software, firmware and hardware patching and updates, tracking, secure storage of events and end of support/service.

Objectives

The IoTopia Task Force works to:

• Leverage standards and accepted parameters for secure-by-design, onboarding, device intent and lifecycle management, and develop high-level requirements, guidelines, and white papers on IoT-related solutions and specifications;
• Host internal and external educational meetings and workshops to further the understanding of IoT technologies across the ecosystem;
• Develop a blueprint for device makers to build and manage connected IoT devices using GlobalPlatform secure component technologies; and
• Collaborate with Government agencies (including NIST/NCCoE, ENISA), Industry Consortiums (such as CTA, CTIA, OCF, IETF, ISA) and Universities, to achieve adoption of the IoTopia Framework and four pillars.

Current Priorities

• Continue to drive forward GlobalPlatform secure component technologies for IoT;
• Promote the use of GlobalPlatform technology, certification and specifications;
• Promote GlobalPlatform’s IoT initiatives IoTopia and Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) within relevant markets;
• Finalize the foundations for IoTopia’s secure-by-design parameters, to address specific consumer and industrial use cases across key market verticals;
• Propose hosted solutions (open source, POCs, repository) to support the deployment of the IoTopia framework;
• Contribute to secure device on boarding deployment across markets; and
• Collaborate with industry partners including the Car Connectivity Consortium, ETSI, GSMA, IoT Connectivity Alliance (ICA), Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), NFC Forum, NIST, Open Mobile Alliance, oneM2M, Trusted Connectivity Alliance and Trusted Platform Consortium.