When consumers think about security for their electronic gadgets, financial applications probably spring first to mind. Identity theft and unauthorized access to bank and investment accounts are a ...

Engineers working on embedded systems or Internet of Things (IoT) projects must contend with the trade-offs between performance and cost that affect every aspect of that design. Security is as much a ...

A hardware security module (HSM) is a solution that stores cryptographic keys to keep them private while ensuring they are available to those authorized to use them. The primary objective of an HSM ...

The companies behind Google’s OpenTitan project recently announced the commercial availability of what they called the world’s first chip with open-source hardware security baked directly into it.

Hardware security encompasses a range of measures designed to protect integrated circuits and systems from a variety of physical and cyber threats. With electronic devices now forming the backbone of ...

Hardware security and intellectual property protection have become critical research areas as the semiconductor industry increasingly relies on a globally distributed design and fabrication ecosystem.

Hardware security vulnerabilities have greatly expanded the attack surface beyond traditional software exploits, making hardware security assurance crucial in modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Chip ...

“Hardware is often assumed to be robust from a security perspective. However, chips are both created with software and contain complex encodings (e.g., circuit designs and firmware). This leads to ...