Presentation
Lost in Silicon: The Need for Re-Innovating the Future of Trusted Hardware and Supply Chain Resilience
DescriptionThe desire to establish digital sovereignty, the recent global semiconductor shortages, and geopolitical interests are driving forces behind various worldwide initiatives to strengthen semiconductor technology and manufacturing on a national and regional basis. Hardware is at the heart of all computing systems; hence, trustworthy and reliable hardware is essential. Otherwise, critical systems and supply chains will be at risk.
However, in recent years, we are witnessing the discovery of a growing number of hardware design and implementation vulnerabilities exploited by unprivileged software, exposing sensitive data or compromising the underlying computing platforms. This new attack paradigm casts a long shadow on decades of research on system security. It disrupts the traditional threat models that focus mainly on software-only vulnerabilities and often assume that the underlying hardware is behaving correctly and is trustworthy. Unfortunately, existing solutions are often ad-hoc, limited, inefficient, and address only specific problems.
The goal of this interactive panel is to bring together leading international researchers and experts from academia, industry, and government and discuss the challenges related but not limited to, themes such as
- security-by-design for hardware and supply chains,
- scalable assurance and trust-establishment methodologies for hardware security and resilience,
- security-aware electronic design automation.
However, in recent years, we are witnessing the discovery of a growing number of hardware design and implementation vulnerabilities exploited by unprivileged software, exposing sensitive data or compromising the underlying computing platforms. This new attack paradigm casts a long shadow on decades of research on system security. It disrupts the traditional threat models that focus mainly on software-only vulnerabilities and often assume that the underlying hardware is behaving correctly and is trustworthy. Unfortunately, existing solutions are often ad-hoc, limited, inefficient, and address only specific problems.
The goal of this interactive panel is to bring together leading international researchers and experts from academia, industry, and government and discuss the challenges related but not limited to, themes such as
- security-by-design for hardware and supply chains,
- scalable assurance and trust-establishment methodologies for hardware security and resilience,
- security-aware electronic design automation.
Event Type
Research Panel
TimeWednesday, July 12th1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Location3014, 3rd Floor
Security