Enhancing EU Cyber Defense Through Hardware Trojans Detection Capabilities
Enhancing EU Cyber Defense Through Hardware Trojans Detection Capabilities

Author(s): Vasile-Florin POPESCU, Victor GÂNSAC, Olivia COMȘA, Cristian ICHIMESCU, Dănuţ TURCU, George BUCĂȚA
Subject(s): Economy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Asociatia Romana pentru Asigurarea Securitatii Informatiei
Keywords: defense industry; hardware Trojans; System-on-Chip; reverse engineering; image acquisition;
Summary/Abstract: Software Trojans and cybersecurity are a concern worldwide. Hardware Trojans are likely to be an issue faced by the Defence Industry of all countries. Information on how defense industry stakeholders deal with HT in Defense Products is by nature scarce or even inaccessible. It is however fair to assume that they adapt and use IC RE methodologies, notably some developed for IP infringement, to search for HTs. With these RE methodologies, checking a chip after its fabrication implies to deconstruct and analyze the whole surface and all the layers of a chip. It is thus hard to know for sure which states has acquired Hardware Trojan detection capabilities. There are however indications that some States could be in the process of acquiring such capabilities.

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