Standards for Hardware Security

Abstract

Due to the globalization of design, manufacturing and distribution of integrated circuits (ICs), hardware underlying information systems have become increasingly vulnerable to a number of malicious attacks, primarily counterfeiting of ICs and piracy of intellectual properties (IPs). To ensure the security of our critical infrastructure, the use of trusted hardware is absolutely necessary. There are a handful of standards, either currently available today or in progress, that provide guidance to undertake hardware security issues. This article focuses on the standardization activity in the domain of hardware security.