Protecting IoT Devices through a Hardware-driven Memory Verification

Troya Çağıl  Köylü; Hans  Okkerman; Cezar Rodolfo Wedig Reinbrecht; Said Hamdioui; Mottaqiallah Taouil

doi:10.1109/DSD53832.2021.00027

Protecting IoT Devices through a Hardware-driven Memory Verification

Troya Çağıl Köylü, Hans Okkerman, Cezar Rodolfo Wedig Reinbrecht, Said Hamdioui, Mottaqiallah Taouil

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Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) devices are appearing in all aspects of our digital life. As such, they have become prime targets for attackers and hackers. An adequate protection against attacks is only possible when the confidentiality and integrity of the data and applications of these devices are secured. State-of-the-art solutions mostly address software and network attacks, but overlook physical/hardware attacks. Such attacks can still exploit software vulnerabilities or even introduce them. In this paper, we present embedded memory security (EMS); it protects against physical tampering of the memory of IoT devices. As a case study, we have equipped a RISC-V based system-on-chip (SoC) with an EMS module. Our experimental results show that EMS successfully can protect the SoC against hardware tampering attacks, while having a low performance overhead.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings
Editors	L. O'Conner
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	115-122
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-2703-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-2704-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD53832.2021.00027
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) - Virtual at Palermo, Spain Duration: 1 Sep 2021 → 3 Sep 2021

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Conference	2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
Abbreviated title	DSD 2021
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Virtual at Palermo
Period	1/09/21 → 3/09/21

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Keywords

IoT
external memory protection
confidentiality
integrity
hardware security

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Köylü, TÇ, Okkerman, H, Reinbrecht, CRW, Hamdioui, S & Taouil, M 2021, Protecting IoT Devices through a Hardware-driven Memory Verification. in L O'Conner (ed.), 2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD): Proceedings., 9556394, IEEE , Piscataway, pp. 115-122, 2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Virtual at Palermo, Spain, 1/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD53832.2021.00027

Protecting IoT Devices through a Hardware-driven Memory Verification. / Köylü, Troya Çağıl ; Okkerman, Hans ; Reinbrecht, Cezar Rodolfo Wedig; Hamdioui, Said ; Taouil, Mottaqiallah.

2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD): Proceedings. ed. / L. O'Conner. Piscataway : IEEE , 2021. p. 115-122 9556394.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceedings/Edited volume › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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