Leveraging a hardware secure element, or ‘Root of Trust’, to establish end-to-end, chip-to-cloud security for IoT products and services is a key recommendation of the GSMA IoT Security Guidelines. This requires both the provisioning and use of security credentials that are inside a secure place within the device.

IoT SAFE (IoT SIM Applet For Secure End-to-End Communication) provides a common mechanism to secure IoT data communications using a highly trusted SIM, rather than using proprietary and potentially less trusted hardware secure elements implemented elsewhere within the device.

Download the executive summary and technical specifications to understand how to leverage the SIM as a robust, scalable and standardised hardware Root of Trust to protect IoT data communications.