It’s easy to slap a few bytes of encryption onto a protocol, call it secure, and walk away.

But that’s the sort of mentality that gets you in trouble.
Ingenu couldn’t and wouldn’t settle for that, so we designed RPMA to offer six security guarantees.
This is where most M2M security starts and also stops. But even then many don’t get a solid start. Encryption keeps your messages confidential. It’s basically a super fancy way to scramble messages that only gets unscrambled with the right key or password.
Even if your messages are encrypted, somebody could capture it and replay it later. Without message integrity and replay protection the message will be let on through causing unauthorized device déjà vu.
Mutual authentication guarantees that everybody knows who everybody else is in a data exchange. Is some stranger trying to get in your devices’ team huddle? Mutual authentication keeps them out.
Devices have unique identities that keep them distinguishable from other devices. It’s important that their secret identity never be revealed. If Batman were a device on the Machine Network, RPMA would never reveal that he was actually Bruce Wayne… oh wait, whoops.
LPWA providers don’t even provide firmware upgrades, much less secure ones. Firmware upgrades make sure your devices evolve with the security environment around them, and RPMA allows for upgrades in a secure manner.
Want to know a secret? You wouldn’t think it, but secure multicasts are a whole different beast than straightforward unicasts, which use mutual authentication. RPMA guarantees that even when many devices are receiving messages, like street lights beings asked to turn on or off simultaneously, they are all protected.
For years our private network customers have trusted our six security guarantees to protect their critical assets. The Machine Network brings those guarantees to the public right out of the box. RPMA offers a robust stack of six security guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity.
To learn more about M2M security, download our white paper, Security for the Internet of Things.