EDU: Collaborative: HACE Lab: An Online Hardware Security Attack and Countermeasure Evaluation Lab

该项目满足了对学生、研究人员和从业人员进行各种硬件安全和信任问题以及紧急解决方案培训的需求。主要目标是建立一套硬件安全课件，并通过开发在线硬件攻击和对策评估（HACE）实验室使这些课件能够被采用。该实验室将允许远程访问，因此将帮助教师采用旨在培养学生在硬件安全和信任的各个方面的技能的课程，包括木马攻击、供应链问题、侧信道攻击、逆向工程、盗版和可信赖的设计解决方案。HACE实验室平台有望通过包括关键硬件安全主题来增强本科生和研究生现有的网络安全课程。它将促进实用硬件安全培训模块的采用和分发，该模块具有易于使用的界面，使用户可以统一访问实验平台、用于安全分析、度量和基准的软件工具。学生将能够远程访问专业硬件，这些硬件通常购买昂贵或需要特殊培训才能安装/使用，以调查各种基于硬件的攻击和对策，并获得对这些主题的实际理解。该项目可以通过精心设计的硬件安全培训模块和实验平台，为全国的大学和社区学院提供网络安全教育，大大增加训练有素的硬件安全专业人员的数量。项目评估结果和学生学习成果将通过HACE网站和Trust-Hub门户网站与教育界分享。

This project addresses the need to train students, researchers, and practitioners on diverse hardware security and trust issues as well as emergent solutions. The primary goal is establishing a set of hardware security courseware and enabling adoption of these courseware through the development of an online Hardware Attack and Countermeasure Evaluation (HACE) Lab. The lab will be amenable for remote access and hence will help instructors adopt a curriculum aimed at training students with skills in various aspects of hardware security and trust including Trojan attacks, supply chain issues, side channel attacks, reverse engineering, piracy, and trustable design solutions. The HACE laboratory platform is expected to enhance existing cybersecurity curricula for both undergraduate and graduate students by including key hardware security topics. It will facilitate adoption and distribution of practical hardware security training modules with an easy-to-use interface that gives users unified access to experimental platforms, software tools for security analysis, metrics, and benchmarks. Students will be able to remotely access the specialized hardware, which are often expensive to acquire or require special training to install/use, to investigate various hardware-based attacks and countermeasures and to get practical understanding on these topics. The project can significantly impact the cybersecurity education through well-designed hardware security training modules and experiment platforms to universities and community colleges nationwide that will vastly increase the pool of well-trained hardware security professionals. The results of the project assessment and student learning outcomes will be shared with the educational community through the HACE website and the Trust-Hub web portal.