TrustLite: Trusted Computing for (Tiny) Embedded Devices
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi ( Darmstadt Technical University )
- 14:00 4th April 2014 ( Hilary Term 2014 )Lecture Theatre B (Wolfson Building)
Embedded systems are increasingly pervasive, interdependent and in many cases critical to our every day life and safety. Tiny devices that cannot afford sophisticated hardware security mechanisms are embedded in complex control infrastructures, medical support systems and entertainment products. As such devices are increasingly subject to attacks, new hardware protection mechanisms are needed to provide the required resilience and dependency at low cost. In this talk, we present and discuss security architectures that aim for flexible hardware-enforced isolation of software modules on (tiny) embedded devices and scales from providing a simple protected firmware runtime to advanced functionality such as attestation.
Speaker bio
Ahmad is a full professor of computer science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is the head of the System Security Lab at the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED). Since January 2012 he has been the Director of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing (ICRI-SC) at TU-Darmstadt. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. Prior to academia, he worked in Research and Development of Telecommunications enterprises, such as Ericsson Telecommunications. He is served on the Editorial Board of the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. He has has been awarded with the renowned German prize “Karl Heinz Beckurts” for his research on Trusted and Trustworthy Computing technology and its transfer to industrial practice. The award honors excellent scientific achievements with high impact on industrial innovations in Germany.Share this:
