© Jiewen Yao and Vincent Zimmer 2020
J. Yao, V. ZimmerBuilding Secure Firmwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6106-4_3

3. Firmware Resiliency: Protection

Jiewen Yao1  and Vincent Zimmer2
(1)
Shanghai, China
(2)
Issaquah, WA, USA
 

Firmware resiliency includes three elements: protection, detection, and recovery. Protection means the protection of the firmware components from attacks. Protection is a proactive aspect of firmware resiliency, while detection and recovery are reactive mechanisms. For resiliency, the main threat is from both the software attacker and the hardware attacker.

Resiliency Building Block

The resiliency building block includes three parts :
  1. 1)

    Resiliency target: It is a mutable engine, which includes code and data.

     
  2. 2)

    Resiliency engine: ...

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