Abstract: The survey is made to find the various research articles that are published over the past 16 years in the area of security implementations with various embedded systems using three well known electronic data bases SCOPUS, IEEE Xplorer and Science Direct. More precisely, what it would cover? And to know the firmware development for microcontrollers and how to incorporate data security through cryptography is also discussed. The survey also takes into account the works that are carried out independently in specific type of crypto algorithm among the various types such as symmetric, asymmetric, block and stream cipher including the light weight algorithms. The major focus of the study lies in analyzing the feasibility in developing firmware for various cryptography algorithms on low, medium and high end microcontrollers that are well suitable for the development of wireless sensor nodes. Furthermore, this survey would explore various methods and tools used to analyze the important parameters like memory footprint and execution time and also suggest future recommendation for improving data security.