Security
Working Group
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.
Related Specifications:
- MIPI Camera Service Extensions (MIPI CSE) v2.0
- MIPI Camera Security
- MIPI Camera Security Profiles
- MIPI Command and Control Interface Service Extensions (MIPI CCISE)
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 working group has intially focused on the MIPI Camera Security Framework, which defines a flexible approach to add end-to-end security to automotive image sensor applications that leverage the MIPI CSI-2 specification. The framework may also be applicable to other non-automotive machine vision applications that leverage MIPI CSI-2-based image sensors.