Security News > 2020 > June > DARPA Bug Bounty Program Seeks to Harden SSITH Hardware Protections
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is running a bug bounty program in an effort to find security vulnerabilities in a new, advanced implementation of the System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware program.
With the new bug bounty program, DARPA is looking to harden SSITH hardware security protections in development.
Unlike most bug bounty programs, which focus on software evaluation, FETT is opening hardware instances for Red Teaming.
A vulnerable web-based voter registration system is also included in the bug bounty program, with the SSITH implementation looking to protect underlying voter information, to demonstrate that it could help keep critical infrastructure secure.
"The FETT Bug Bounty is a unique take on DARPA's more traditional program evaluation efforts," Keith Rebello, the DARPA program manager leading SSITH and FETT, said.