Beijing, China, January 19, 2022 – Xiaomi, a consumer electronics and smart manufacturing company, has published a new set of proposed global standards to support and reassure consumers about the security of their data while using IoT products.
The guideline entitled “Cyber Security Baseline for Consumer Internet of Things Device Version 2.0″ aims “to protect security and user privacy with a comprehensive set of requirements covering guidelines from device hardware, device software to device communication.” It also states the requirements on data security and privacy, which include communication security, authentication and access control, secure boot, data deletion, etc. It is a security baseline that all Xiaomi smart devices should follow.
The guideline of Xiaomi, said the company, meets the need of the consumer IoT industry as there is no such general standard that can be publicly queried and implemented. Now companies can use this guide to avoid some basic security and privacy protection risks, and to quickly improve the security and privacy protection capabilities of their IoT products.
Xiaomi owns the world’s leading consumer AIoT platform. As of November 2021, Xiaomi’s AIoT platform has connected more than 400 million devices, excluding smartphones and laptops, and there are more than 8 million users with 5 or more Xiaomi IoT devices around the world. Xiaomi offers the most comprehensive security protection to its users and explores the best industry solutions and common standards for other stakeholders.
The guideline comes as the British Standards Institution (BSI) confirmed that Xiaomi Mesh System AX3000 has obtained the BSI IoT Kitemark Certificate.
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