INSIDE Secure, the worldwide leader in complete solutions for embedded security, recently announces the next generation of its innovative dual-interface VaultIC 150/150D security modules. These have been redesigned to provide enhanced functionality, including a new privacy mode, providing a more cost-effective solution that will have broad appeal to new, higher-volume markets. The VaultIC 150/150D may be used by brands as an NFC Forum Type 4 tag to provide an effective protection solution to guard against counterfeiting, cloning and grey marketing. It may also be used as a low-cost secure bridge by manufacturers of medical, communications, entertainment and other equipment to enable real-time communications and data transfer between their products and NFC-enabled smartphones, tablets or other mobile devices.
“The NFC tags based on the VaultIC 150 are the first of their kind to offer a privacy (mute) mode that can protect personal information by requiring strong authentication to gain access to the tag’s contents. This feature is becoming mandatory across the EU and elsewhere and complies with the ‘silent by design’ philosophy of the Internet of Things community,” said Bernard Vian, executive vice president of the secure transactions business division at INSIDE Secure. “Beyond this, we’ve included a number of other new features and updated the physical design of these VaultIC chips to better meet the assembly constraints of our customers and offer lower-cost packaging for new applications.”
