ARM, Intercede, Solacia and Symantec have announced the Open Trust Protocol (OTrP), to bring banking and e-commerce security techniques to the IoT and its billions of end-points. The group collectively assessed the security challenges facing the IoT, including the Industrial IoT (IIoT), smart home, healthcare, and transportation, and have concluded that any system could be compromised unless it can establish a system-level root of trust. Consequently, OTrP is the answer – and is now available for download from the IETF as an informational, with a view to having a standards body drive it forward as an interoperable standard. The group says that OTrP combines a ‘secure architecture with trusted code management, using technologies proven in large scale banking and sensitive…