Embedded Systems Security - 5AMSE518

Goal(s)

• Educational Objectives: This course is aimed at giving understanding about embedded system security with a focus on the hardware role on the system security. The course offers a broad spectrum of hardware vulnerabilities and associated countermeasures (designed either at the hardware or software level). The course addresses also hardware-based security schemes focusing on their system level integration. The course is based on real life examples.
• Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the students have understanding on basic terminology and concepts related to hardware vulnerabilities embedded system security and hardware support for system security. They are also exposed to basic cryptography, certification issues and vulnerability analysis methodology. In the end, the students put it all together in the form of a case study for designing and evaluating an embedded system.

Content(s)

• Introduction to Embedded System Security
• Side Channel Attack (SCA)
  • Attack Principles
  • Practical Consideration and different types of SCA
  • Designing practical Countermeasures against SCA
  • Labs on SCA
• Fault Injection (FI) Attacks
  • Objectives and Principles
  • FI Means with their effect
  • Case studies on HW and SW un FI
  • Labs
• Trustworthy Hardware
  • Trust Issues during the Integrated Circuit Life Cycle
  • Test and Security
  • Hardware Trojan
  • Counterfeiting and Piracy
• Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)
  • Principles
  • Design, Integration and Evaluation of PUF
  • System Level security based on PUF
  • Labs
• Hardware Support for Trusted Computing
  • Control Flow Integrity
  • Memory Isolation
  • Trusted Execution Environment
  • System level integration of hardware based security

computer architecture, digital electronics, VHDL/Verilog, signal processing, C programming, embedded system design and test