IAR Renesas RX MCU Compliance Suite
Ensuring compliance with IoT application security regulations
Includes security development tools that provide shrink wrap solutions


As new laws for IoT security and privacy are rapidly being introduced worldwide, compliance with these regulations presents a challenge for all organizations and developers using embedded applications.

IAR Systems and Secure Thingz today announced the Compliance Suite for Renesas RX.

The Compliance Suite provides secure development tools, practical guidance, and more to quickly build applications that comply with security regulations such as the Consumer IoT Security Standard EN 303 645, 13 UK and Australian Best Practices, and the US Cybersecurity Improvement Act (NISTIR 8259). This Compliance Suite for Renesas RX is specifically designed for applications based on the Renesas RX family of MCUs.

In many cases, RX MCUs include Trusted Secure IP (TSIP) technology, which provides numerous security features and complies with key requirements of the EN 303-645 standard.

“The Renesas RX65N MCU with TSIP module is the world’s first general-purpose MCU to achieve NIST FIPS 140-2 CMVP Level 3 certification,” said Daryl Khoo, vice president of marketing for Renesas’ IoT Platform Business Unit. “The Compliance Suite for RX helps customers quickly acquire practical application knowledge, ensure security compliance, and streamline development to implement solutions.”

The Compliance Suite for Renesas RX provides a suite of secure development tools integrated with the IAR Embedded Workbench development toolchain. The C-Trust secure development tool enables developers to automatically deliver secure and encrypted code.

Developers can maintain continuous control over current and future system operations with pre-configured security contexts that define the configuration of a trusted execution environment.

The pre-configured security contexts included in the Compliance Suite are designed to work with RX MCUs. The Compliance Suite also includes a course package from SecureThings' in-house security experts, practical guidance on topics such as an introduction to embedded security and available tools, legal overviews, and practical guidance on how to meet security compliance.

The IoT Security Alliance has developed an IoT Security Compliance Framework that allows organizations to implement a self-certification methodology that includes 13 security and security-by-design best practices guidelines. Based on 13 best practices, the EN 303 645 Consumer IoT Security Standard serves as a security benchmark for consumer IoT. The standard and guidelines contain core security requirements that developers must meet for their applications.

The compliance suite from IAR Systems and SecureThings enables organizations to rapidly build applications that incorporate these core requirements, providing security for existing applications and enabling them to add security guidance for new features in next-generation, verifiable embedded applications.