Hardware Security

Chapter 16

System Level Attacks & Countermeasures

Abstract

This chapter describes system-level attacks, with specific focus on software attacks that exploit functional or side-channel bugs in hardware. It presents SoC design flow, including definition of security architecture and design review to ensure security. It also describes security policy-based solutions that govern confidentiality, integrity, and availability of security assets in an SoC to provide effective countermeasures against these attacks.

Keywords

Security Policy; System on Chip Security; Security Architecture

Chapter Outline

• 16.1  Introduction
• 16.2  Background on SoC Design
• 16.3  SoC Security Requirements
  • 16.3.1  Assets in SoC
  • 16.3.2  Adversarial Model
  • 16.3.3  Design-for-Debug ...