Efficient SoC Security Monitoring: Quality Attributes and Potential Solutions
Mridha Md Mashahedur Rahman, Shams Tarek, Kimia Zamiri Azar, Mark Tehranipoor, Farimah Farahmandi
Abstract
With the ever-increasing size and complexity of system-on-chip (SoC) architectures, where numerous parties (either trusted or untrusted) are involved each playing a crucial role (e.g., providing 3rd-party intellectual properties (IPs), accomplishing design stages like fabrication, testing, and packaging), various hardware-oriented security threats have emerged. One of the solutions against such threats is SoC-level security monitoring, which enables the possibility of validating security policies. However, due to the lack of comprehensive research in this field, its current solutions suffer from significant flaws. This paper identifies a set of quality attributes for SoC security monitoring solutions (which mostly failed to be met by the existing solutions). The potential solutions for SoC security monitoring have been defined each evaluated based on the identified quality attributes.