SecEdge and Advantech announced a partnership to deliver a complete chip-to-cloud security solution for edge AI. Advantech, an Elite partner in the NVIDIA Partner Network, has made available the SecEdge SEC-TPM solution in its MIC-AI inference system based on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform. This provides customers with an out-of-the-box solution that accelerates secure edge AI deployments.

SEC-TPM is a firmware trusted platform module (fTPM) coupled with a secure provisioning service that ensures AI model security while reducing Bill-of-Materials BOM cost. The solution brings a number of benefits: AI Model Protection: AI models represent a large investment in intellectual property that must be protected from corruption or theft. Protecting AI at the edge presents a unique set of challenges.

SEC-TPM protects AI models at rest and maintains AI model integrity with secure remote management. Device Integrity: Device integrity is ensured with trust provisioning and management of SEC-TPM, eliminating the need for a discrete TPM chip or secure manufacturing facility. Multi-Tenant Secure Device Access: The solution enables secure connectivity across applications with independent IPSec tunnels.

For example, a traffic-monitoring application having several tenants could include: a camera vendor OEM (for camera software updates), an AI model developer (for model management), and the city (for secure access to camera feeds and model inferences). SEC-TPM is integrated with NVIDIA JetPack 6.0 including microservices for Jetson, providing a complete set of device security functions and features, including secure boot and firmware updates, failure recovery, encryption, credentials management, and cloud integration.