Security News > 2020 > September > Hardware security: Emerging attacks and protection mechanisms

Maggie Jauregui's introduction to hardware security is a fun story: she figured out how to spark, smoke, and permanently disable GFCI wirelessly with a walkie talkie.

Hardware-based security typically refers to the defenses that help protect against vulnerabilities targeting these devices, and it's main focus it to make sure that the different hardware components working together are architected, implemented, and configured correctly.

Jauregui says that there is no single blanket solution approach to implement security of embedded systems, and that while some of the general hardware security recommendations apply, many do not.

For those security professionals who are interested in specializing in hardware security, she advises being curious about how things work and doing research, following folks doing interesting things on Twitter and asking them things, and watching hardware security conference talks and trying to reproduce the issues.

"Learn by doing. And if you want someone to lead you through it, go take a class! I recommend hardware security classes by Joe FitzPatrick and Joe Grand, as they are brilliant hardware researchers and excellent teachers," she concluded.

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