Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Evaluating hardware security

Hardware security must also be evaluated. This may be a challenge given the relative lack of test tools available for this activity; however, there are security platforms that are beginning to emerge. One example, created by researchers Julien Moinard and Gwenole Audic, is known as Hardsploit.

Hardsploit is designed as a flexible and modular tool that can be used to interface with various data bus types, including UART, Parallel, SPI, CAN Modbus, and others. More information about Hardsploit is available at https://hardsploit.io/.

The process for evaluating hardware security in an enterprise IoT implementation is straightforward. Testers need to understand whether hardware devices introduce new weaknesses in a ...