IoT Security Firm Mocana Prides Itself in Being Different
In a competitive cybersecurity landscape with a strong focus on IT security, Mocana has a unique focus.
April 18, 2019
Founded in 2002 to help secure military vehicles and devices, Mocana occupies a unique place in the IoT landscape. The company is a finalist in the IoT World Awards and a recent recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2019 North American Visionary Innovation Leadership Award. It works to help more than 200 industrial automation and IoT companies secure their assets, which range from industrial automation equipment to thermostats, surveillance cameras, gateways and medical devices. Its partner ecosystem includes the likes of Arm, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, NXP and Qualcomm. To date, the company has received $105 million in funding.
Mocana’s security philosophy, while acknowledging the importance of idealistic models such as defense in depth and the zero-trust model, strives for pragmatism. The company doesn’t aim to add ever-more layers of incremental and, at times, hard to quantify security features as the defense in depth model recommends, an approach the company’s chief technology officer refers to as “bolt on, bolt on and bolt on some more.” And instead of rejecting the trust in all systems, services and actors as the zero trust model prescribes, the company’s TrustPoint software complies with NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 1, the U.S. government computer standard for cryptographic modules, to ensure IoT devices are trustworthy.