Who Should Attend: Microelectronic System Architects, Designers, and Engineering Management
Overview:
Any physical device that provides secured access or secures the use of licensed or protected media or of a licensed or protected application (whether distributed as software or as a web-enabled application) benefits significantly from hardware security. Since software is distributed and controlled by a vendor for use on general-purpose hardware, when the software security is attacked and broken it is broken for all the general-purpose hardware. New hardware security methods are being used to establish a layer of security that is unique for each device such that if security is broken for one hardware device only that individual hardware device is affected without affecting the general hardware population and the integrity of the overall security system.
In addition to a secure chip design, it is also important to consider how a device will be manufactured to support the long term security goals of a standard. Industry standards that require injection of cryptographic keys at manufacture time, could be at risk given today's realities of contract, outsourced and offshore manufacturing facilities.
Since industry standards typically last quite a bit longer than a typical product life cycle, in cases where security is specified within an industry standard, the integrity of that security scheme will need to survive as long as the industry standard it supports. Depending on the criticality of the embedded security scheme, the costs of a broken security scheme may potentially result in the breaking down of the standard which it supports.
Historically, most sensitive key information, such as that used for HDCP, DRM, and WiMAX, was stored in either electric fuse or in an off-chip EPROM or Flash device. With the realization that entire standards may be vulnerable to broken security schemes, system architects are now beginning to ask for more hardened physical layer security. The security solution requirements include physical layer security in silicon, as well as security for key management within the chip companies global supply chain.
Presenters:
 Craig Rawlings, Director of Marketing, Kilopass Technology
Craig Rawlings is Director of Marketing at Kilopass Technology. He has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Kilopass, Craig was a VP of Sales at Resilience Corporation, and he has held management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Actel. Craig holds a B.S.E.E. degree and a Masters of Business Administration from Brigham Young University.
 Brian Neill, Product Manager, Certicom Corp.
Brian Neill, Product Manager at Certicom Corp, has been securing offshore and outsourced manufacturing processes, with a portfolio of Certicom products, for the past 3 years. Prior to his current role, Brian was a member of Certicom's Professional Services team, helping customers to engineer security into their devices and systems. Brian received his B.Math degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1999 and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
About Certicom:
Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC) protects the value of your content, applications and devices with government-approved security. Adopted by the National Security Agency (NSA) for classified and sensitive but unclassified government communications, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) provides the most security per bit of any known public-key scheme. As the undisputed leader in ECC, Certicom's security offerings enable developers to quickly and easily address the requirements of markets such as government communications, smart devices, service providers and enterprise software.
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