Demystifying Internet of Things Security: Successful IoT Device/Edge and Platform Security Deployment

© The Author(s) 2020

S. Cheruvu et al.Demystifying Internet of Things Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2896-8_3

3. Base Platform Security Hardware Building Blocks

Sunil Cheruvu¹ , Anil Kumar¹, Ned Smith² and David M. Wheeler³

(1)

Chandler, AZ, USA

(2)

Beaverton, OR, USA

(3)

Gilbert, AZ, USA

 

Every distraction is a possibility, Every downfall is an opportunity.

—Ria Cheruvu

Historically, the attacks on platforms have been transitioning from application-level software (SW) to user mode SW to kernel mode SW to firmware (FW) and now hardware (HW). The frequency of HW- and FW-level vulnerabilities increased substantially from 2003 to 2019 and therefore reinforces a concrete need for HW-based security to harden the platform. This is evident from ...