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Telecommunications

Securing network infrastructure, subscriber identity, and cloud-native telecom systems

FortifyIQ delivers advanced cryptographic protection for the telecommunications industry, where real-time performance, post-quantum readiness, and SCA/FIA resilience are critical. Our cryptographic IP, software libraries, Roots of Trust, and validation tools ensure secure deployments across mobile networks, telecom cloud infrastructure, and subscriber authentication platforms, even in the most resource-constrained or physically exposed environments.

Industry Requirements

Modern telecom networks must meet stringent security, compliance, and performance standards:
Global Telecom
Compliance

Security modules must support FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria (e.g., AVA_VAN.5), ISO/IEC 27001, ETSI EN 303 645, and 3GPP/ETSI specifications. Alignment with GSMA guidelines is also critical for SIM/eSIM/iSIM and mobile security.

Performance and
Low Latency

Telecom platforms must sustain secure high-throughput encryption, message authentication, and key management with minimal power and processing overhead.

Advanced Attack
Resistance

Side-channel and fault injection attacks threaten telecom cryptographic implementations. Protection against DPA, CPA, EMA, and voltage/clock/EM glitching is essential to protect SIM provisioning, authentication, and key exchange.

Cross-domain
Deployment

With vehicles on the road for decades, cryptographic systems must be quantum-resistant today to remain secure tomorrow.

Long-Lived Cryptographic Protection

Telecom infrastructure, including satellites, base stations, and network hardware, often operates over decades and cannot be easily replaced or retrofitted. These long-lived assets must be protected today against tomorrow’s threats, including those posed by quantum computing. Security solutions must therefore offer post-quantum readiness and forward security to ensure confidentiality, authentication, and integrity throughout the full lifecycle of deployed systems.

Why
FortifyIQ?

What FortifyIQ Provides:
  • Cryptographic solutions compliant with 3GPP security standards for mobile and fixed networks.
  • Protection against physical attacks for communication devices and infrastructure.
  • Support for secure key management, authentication, and OTA updates.
  • FIPS 140-3 L3/4, SESIP, and Common Criteria, including AVA_VAN.5 compliant cryptography modules.
What You Should Address:
  • Network security policies and secure operational practices.
  • While telecom-specific cybersecurity mandates are outside our scope, all cryptographic security and Root of Trust capabilities are fully compliant with global standards.
  • Integration with wider carrier and network security architectures.

Proven SCA/FIA Resistance for All Products – Our hardware IPs are validated to meet and exceed certification benchmarks. AES (STORM) design carries formal proof of leakage-free operation. AES (RAMBAM) implementation is validated to over 1 billion traces in simulation and on an FPGA board, and is Common Criteria AVA_VAN.5 validated. HMAC SHA2 implementations are validated in simulation and on an FPGA board to over 100 million traces. PKA is validated in silicon to X million traces. Our software libraries are validated past 100 thousand traces, meeting top tier security regulations.

Optimized for Telecom Needs – Crypto cores meet real-time, power-sensitive constraints typical of base stations, secure elements, and edge infrastructure.

Cryptographic Security Without Hardware – Our secure AES and HMAC SHA2 in software reach up to 900 Mbps on a 3.4 GHz CPU and up to 100 Mbps on legacy mobile SoCs (e.g., 1.1 GHz), enabling deployment in OTA or constrained environments, with top tier certifiable security level.

Post-Quantum Readiness – FortifyIQ supports AES, HMAC, and classical PKA (ECC/RSA), as well as ML-KEM and ML-DSA post-quantum cryptographic cores, providing long-life cryptography support, particularly crucial for satellites and infrastructure.

Ultra-Flexible Deployment – Solutions available as software, soft IP, or RoT modules, easily integrated into virtualized platforms, Caliptra- or OpenTitan-based architectures, or telecom chiplets. Our solutions are implementation-, technical-, and foundry-agnostic. Our solutions are implementation-, technical- and foundry-agnostic.

FortifyIQ’s cryptographic IP cores, built on mathematically and practically validated countermeasures, ensure robust protection against advanced physical threats.

 

AES IP cores include:

  • RAMBAM: Validated to AVA_VAN.5 by SGS Brightsight. TVLA-compliant with over 1 billion trace-validation, meeting and exceeding regulatory standards.
  • STORM: Formally proven side-channel security with minimal silicon footprint. TVLA-validated on over 15 million traces.

HMAC-SHA2 IP cores include:

  • HMAC-SHA2: Based on a patented variant of the security-proven Threshold Implementation (TI), validated to meet the highest cryptographic regulatory standards (and TVLA validated on over 100 million traces).
  • Compact-Fast HMAC-SHA2: Validated to 100 million traces against the known attacks. The diagrams show that the attack succeeds on the unprotected version, vs on our protected version, where it will clearly never succeed.

Our validation methodology includes:

  • Pre-silicon RTL validation using FortifyIQ’s EDA tools (TVLA, gate-level trace, attack simulation)
  • FPGA and silicon post-silicon testing
    Protection against DPA, CPA, EMA, and fault injection (voltage, EM, clock)
  • Optional detection of non-invasive fault injection
  • After release, when relevant, our IP cores are validated and/or certified by third-party labs either as standalone blocks or integrated into complete secure chips.

 

Documentation provided for compliance under FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria, and telecom-aligned international standards.

FortifyIQ Solutions for Telecom Systems

Solution Category

FortifyIQ
Offering

Software Crypto Libraries

AES, HMAC-SHA2, ECC, RSA, etc., and PQC, SCA/FIA-resistant software libraries for mobile CPUs, edge devices, and secure fallback.

Hardware Crypto IP Cores

Side-channel and fault-resistant AES, HMAC, PKA, and PQC IPs with industry-leading power, performance, and area (PPA) and compliance-ready validation.

Root of Trust (RoT)

Secure anchors enabling verified boot, key management, and in-line encryption in chiplet-based and telecom-grade SoCs.

EDA Tools for Pre-silicon Validation

RTL-level simulation and attack validation tools for SCA/FIA resistance—used internally and by telecom hardware designers.

Use Cases
and Applications

FortifyIQ supports telecom operators, infrastructure vendors, and chip designers across the full spectrum of telecom deployment:

SIM/eSIM/iSIM Provisioning

Protect key storage, personalization, and provisioning with validated AES and HMAC SHA2 cores and RoT support. Software libraries offer fallback options for legacy provisioning.

5G Base Stations and Network Equipment

Harden SoC-based baseband processors and secure elements with FortifyIQ IP, meeting stringent latency and power, performance and area targets while resisting physical attacks.

Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) and SDN Platforms

Ensure isolation, key protection, and authenticated control messages with software and hardware crypto resistant to real-world attacks.

Telecom Cloud and Edge Computing

FortifyIQ crypto IP and software protect workloads in virtualized, containerized, and edge-hosted environments where physical control is limited.

OTA Firmware and Software Updates

RoT modules ensure firmware authentication and secure boot, including over-the-air provisioning on vulnerable baseband and control platforms.

Subscriber Authentication and Session Integrity

Secure cryptographic primitives used in AKA, NAS, RRC, MACSec, IPsec, and TLS layers with post-quantum readiness and proven protection against leakage and injection.

Critical Communications and Private Networks

Secure public safety and industrial telecom environments with AES, HMAC, and RoT components that deliver high assurance under resource and compliance constraints.

Let's Secure the Future of
Telecommunications Systems

FortifyIQ safeguards network infrastructure, subscriber identities, and cloud-native telecom systems.

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