© Jiewen Yao and Vincent Zimmer 2020
J. Yao, V. ZimmerBuilding Secure Firmwarehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6106-4_8

8. Device Security

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

A hardware device is an important component in the solution. It can be one part of a platform with other devices on a board, such as a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) device, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), a Power Supply Unit (PSU), and so on. Or it can be a standalone one, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device, graphic card device, network card device, hard disk drive, and so on.

Device Firmware Resiliency

The “Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices” introduces the following design principles:
  1. 1.

    Hardware-based root-of-trust ...

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