TY - GEN
T1 - Open Platform Systems under Scrutiny
T2 - 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2018
AU - Tychalas, Dimitrios
AU - Maniatakos, Michail
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This project was supported by the NYU Global Seed grant program.
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© 2018 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Embedded systems are deployed in systems ranging from personal devices to systems deployed in critical infrastructure. Due to the advent of Industry 4.0 and the rising need for platform transparency and uniformity, developers opt for open-source modular system software that replace the conventional monolithic firmware approach. A common part of the modern embedded system is the Device Tree, a hardware description structure leveraged by the OS kernel. This modular approach and its malleability, however, can be exposed as a vulnerability and enable an array of attacks that would disrupt and destabilize the system. In this paper, we consider the Device Tree from a cybersecurity perspective. We identify scenarios that would enable covert attacks on a target system as well as propose countermeasures from the state-of-the-art.
AB - Embedded systems are deployed in systems ranging from personal devices to systems deployed in critical infrastructure. Due to the advent of Industry 4.0 and the rising need for platform transparency and uniformity, developers opt for open-source modular system software that replace the conventional monolithic firmware approach. A common part of the modern embedded system is the Device Tree, a hardware description structure leveraged by the OS kernel. This modular approach and its malleability, however, can be exposed as a vulnerability and enable an array of attacks that would disrupt and destabilize the system. In this paper, we consider the Device Tree from a cybersecurity perspective. We identify scenarios that would enable covert attacks on a target system as well as propose countermeasures from the state-of-the-art.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICECS.2018.8618042
DO - 10.1109/ICECS.2018.8618042
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062290494
T3 - 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2018
SP - 477
EP - 480
BT - 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 9 December 2018 through 12 December 2018
ER -