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Protect Your Innovation: Secure CNC Machines Against Counterfeiting and IP Theft
A CNC machine manufacturer faced the risk of counterfeiting and intellectual property theft after five years of development. Lynx's Secure by Design solutions safeguarded their cutting-edge device, enabling a secure and cost-efficient product launch.

Why Your IP is More Than Just Code—It’s Your Competitive Edge
Five years of innovation, testing, and refinement resulted in a precision cutting device poised to revolutionize the market. But without robust security, this CNC machine manufacturer risked losing it all to counterfeiting and intellectual property theft. These risks aren’t unique—industrial and IoT product developers face escalating threats as counterfeiters and hackers target high-value embedded systems.
Protecting your intellectual property is about more than safeguarding your technology; it’s about protecting your reputation, market share, and competitive edge. Lynx empowers innovators to secure their devices with proven solutions that reduce risks, simplify workflows, and accelerate time to market.
Challenge
Counterfeiting Risks Loom Large for Embedded Systems
The CNC machine manufacturer faced several key challenges:
- Protecting their innovative design from cloning or counterfeit reproduction.
- Preventing unauthorized access to software stored on the device’s filesystem.
- Securing firmware updates against malicious tampering or unauthorized installations.
Despite initial research into security technologies, their team lacked embedded development experience and needed an expert partner to develop and implement a robust, scalable solution.
Solution
Lynx Delivers Secure by Design Solutions for Industrial Success
Lynx stepped in with a comprehensive security plan tailored to the manufacturer’s needs:
- Secure Boot Implementation: Using NXP’s High Assurance Boot (HAB) technology, Lynx ensured that only authorized software could execute on the device.
- What this means for you: Prevents attackers from replacing or altering firmware with malicious code.
- Filesystem Encryption: Encrypting the entire image/filesystem protected the eMMC chip from being cloned or counterfeited.
- What this means for you: Ensures your device’s software remains unreadable, even if hardware is physically accessed.
- Platform Hardening: Lynx disabled JTAG and serial console interfaces, significantly reducing potential attack surfaces.
- What this means for you: Shields your device from debugging-based exploits commonly used to extract IP.
- Encrypted Firmware Updates: Secured update processes to prevent unauthorized installations or tampering.
- What this means for you: Delivers safe, trusted updates to keep systems secure throughout their lifecycle.
These solutions not only protected the CNC machine’s intellectual property but also gave the manufacturer confidence that their device would reach the market as intended—innovative, secure, and counterfeit-free.
Results
From Vulnerability to Victory: A Secured Launch for Tomorrow’s Technology
The CNC machine manufacturer achieved a secure product launch with Lynx’s expert guidance.
Results at a Glance:
- 100% secure boot implementation ensured software integrity.
- Encrypted filesystems safeguarded IP and prevented counterfeiting.
- Hardened systems drastically reduced potential vulnerabilities.
- Encrypted firmware updates maintained security throughout the product lifecycle.
By addressing key security challenges before production, the manufacturer delivered a device that not only met market expectations but exceeded them with a proven commitment to quality and innovation.
Your Innovation Deserves the Best Protection
Don’t let your hard work fall victim to counterfeiting or theft. Protect your intellectual property and ensure your product launches securely.