ioXt Alliance Expands Network Lighting Controls Certification Program
The Internet of Secure Things Alliance (ioXt), founded in 2018 and now consisting of more than 190 companies, including many in the lighting industry, has expanded its Network Lighting Controls Certification Program.
With a mission to build confidence in Internet of Things products through multi-stakeholder, international, harmonized, and standardized security and privacy requirements, product compliance programs, and public transparency of those requirements and programs, the ioXt is built around 8 security principles against which products are evaluated.
The Pledge principles are:
1) No universal passwords
2) Secured interfaces
3) Proven cryptography
4) Security by default
5) Signed software updates
6) Automatic updates
7) Vulnerability reporting program
8) Security expiration date
With a steering committee represented by more than 16 market leaders in lighting controls, ioXt has been added to the list of accepted cybersecurity certification providers for Networked Lighting Controls requirements for the DesignLights Consortium (DLC).
As stated in the press release, “Making NLCs more resilient to malicious attacks is essential for building the customer trust necessary to expand adoption of the technology,” according to Levin Nock, senior technical manager at the DLC. “The new ioXt NLC Profile is a welcome step in that direction.”
As IoT continues to expand in the lighting industry, more security is the key for buy-in for the industry as it begins its transition from early adoption to early majority.
Go Deeper. The Press Release may be viewed here. Further information on the ioXt Network Lighting Controls can be discovered here.