Hardware, Electromagnetic And Localization Security 2021/2022

Introduction

1. Information security/Cybersecurity/Security vs Safety/Privacy definitions;

2. Introduction to  vulnerabilities, attacks, threats and possible systems at risk;  

3. Hardware, Short range/near field  and long range/far field problem segmentation

Short range RF SECURITY

1. Fundamentals of WIRELESS MEDICAL DEVICES

2. Architecture of wearable communication systems (off the body, on-body. Through the body)

3. Identification and Radio Frequency sensors 

4. Vulnerability and authenticity of Wireless Wearable Systems. Electromagnetic fundamentals of Side Channel Attack, radiated emission and Susceptibility

5. Security by Design:shielding, choke, watchdog

6. Privacy issues in wearable medical devices

Long range RF security

1. Fundamentals of RF localization

2. Electronic Warfare notable schemes and examples (Intelligence and Elint, ESM, ECM, ECCM…, libraries, low probability of intercept, authentication, encryption); 

3. Most used attacks on the  RF channel (Chaff, Eavesdropping,  Jamming,  Message injection, Spoofing...)

4. RF attacks on  Satellite Navigation Systems 

5. RF and signal countermeasures (e.g.   frequency agility, spread spectrum and LPI signals, BSS, null steering, DBF…)

6. System countermeasures (Anomaly detection, Integrity…)   

Hardware security

1. Background notions on dependability of computing systems 

2. Hardware Trust Issues (Hardware Trojans, Trojan Modeling, HWT Examples, HWT in FPGA Designs, Activation, Payload, Location, Trojans Taxonomy, Trust Benchmarks)

3. Hardware Vulnerability Issues (Side Channel Attacks, Power and Electromagnetic Analysis,, Fault Attacks, Timing attacks, Transient execution attacks, Test oriented attacks, scan based attacks)

4. Countermeasures (Countermeasures against trust Issues, Taxonomy of HWT detection, Design for HW Trust, Countermeasures against vulnerability Issues)

5. Hardware security primitives (Physically Unclonable Functions, Silicon PUFs, Definitions and properties, PUF Applications, True Random Number Generators, Introduction Physical TRNGs, Post-processing of Random Numbers, Discussion)