Beacons, by default, are open and static, and they communicate “in the clear”. That makes your infrastructure vulnerable, and with little effort someone can attack it, using your beacons in a manner which you didn’t intend. Learn how to protect your beacons!

1. #kontakt_io
Beacon Security
Common attacks & how
you can protect your
beacons
Webinar

2. 3 Ways
Beacons Can Be Attacked

3. An attacker can grab information
being broadcast by your beacons
and
● Add them to his or her
application without your
consent (Piggybacking)
● Put it into another beacon to
mislead your users (Cloning)
Piggybacking &
Cloning

4. By default, beacons don’t encrypt
the data that is sent to them. The
attacker can see the password
you sent to connect to your
beacon and then use it and
change it, so you can’t connect
anymore.
Hijacking

5. Cracking
An attacker can also physically
removes your beacon from the
wall, opens it up, and probes the
memory directly.

6. How Businesses And
Organizations Can Secure
Their Beacons?

7. Kontakt.io Secure
It is the world’s only
complete suite of beacon
security technology that fully
protects your beacons against
every kind of attack
available from October 15th, 2015

8. Kontakt.io Secure
It brings two new features:
Kontakt.io Secure Shuffling
and Kontakt.io Secure
Communication, and
continues to protect
information by software lock
available from October 15th , 2015

9. Schedules your beacons to
repeatedly change their
identifiers. That means that
anyone who has captured the data
that the beacon transmitted in the
past can no longer use your
beacon's information to
piggyback or clone your device.
Kontakt.io Secure
Shuffling

10. Kontakt.io Secure
Communication
Encrypts all the communication
between your beacons and
devices that manage them (like
smartphones). This means that
settings and configuration data
are all transmitted securely and
beacons can’t be hijacked.

11. Software Lock
Since the beginning, we’ve locked
our beacons via Nordic
Semiconducters’ on board
firmware so data on Kontakt.io
beacons can’t be read. Even if a
hacker tries to extract data
manually, he or she will be unable
to, because the information is
protected by a software lock on
the device itself.

12. Join our webinar & learn more!