The Hack@DAC Story: Learnings from Organizing the World’s Largest Hardware Hacking Competition
Computing Stack Challenges Observed During Offensive Security Research at Intel Awareness of Hardware Common Weaknesses [CONCEPTS] Security-Aware Design Automation [TOOLS] "Shift-Left" to Detect & Fix Bugs in RTL [BEST PRACTICES] 1. Limited Awareness of HW Security Weaknesses 2. Need for Security-Aware Design Automation Tools 3. Need to Detect/Fix Bugs at RTL Design Phase SW bugs fixed with patches HW bugs are complicated to fix Time consuming Expensive Cause brand damage System on a Chip(Soc) Data Confidentiality Protect secrets from unauthorized access Data Integrity Protect data modification by untrusted…