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Security

Working Group

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Status: ACTIVE

Charter

Industry Need

Focus

Meetings

About the Group

Co-Chairs
Philip Hawkes, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Rick Wietfeldt, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Participation
MIPI Alliance members at the Contributor level and above may participate by subscribing to the group on the member website.

Details

Charter

The Security Working Group (Security WG) was established in March 2021 and chartered with developing MIPI security specifications to address the requirements of the various MIPI market segments regarding the securing of MIPI PHYs and protocols against external threats. The group serves as a forum for larger security discussions among working groups in order to streamline efforts and promote consistent approaches to security across MIPI. It also participates in security discussions with working groups established with MIPI liaison partners.

The Security WG was promoted from a MIPI Investigation Group, which was formed in 2019, following in the footsteps of the MIPI Birds of a Feather (BoF) security group initiated in 2016.

Industry Need

While MIPI Alliance's interface specifications are de facto in mobile devices and a broad range of mobile-influenced devices, the Security WG allows the Alliance to take a holistic approach to ever-growing security concerns and determine a broader strategy and set of requirements to provide working groups with a consistent solution.

The efforts of the WG will impact security design decisions in mobile components and chipsets, smartphones, mobile-connected devices, IoT products, automotive use cases and other applications moving forward.

Focus

The group's efforts will focus on defining how to map industry security frameworks, protocols, and algorithms to the protection of MIPI interfaces. The group will incorporate inputs from other MIPI working groups into its work on specifications and supporting materials to address current and future use cases and requirements. The initial focus is on developing security specifications for use by camera CSI-2 and display DSI-2 interfaces within the MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS) collection of specifications for automotive applications of ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and IVI (In Vehicle Infotainment). The working group also liaises with the VESA Automotive Extensions group that develops security for the eDP/DP interface for applications including automotive and works with the MIPI Debug work group on securing debug interfaces.

Meetings

The Security WG currently meets weekly via teleconference. Participants who cannot attend the meetings may still subscribe to the Security WG’s activities and contribute to discussions through email.