Planning IUCRC Northeastern University: Center for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST)

集成电路和嵌入式硬件设备对于国防、能源、医疗保健、银行、通信、交通和其他部门的大多数现代军事和工业系统至关重要。这些设备比以往任何时候都更容易受到不可信实体的恶意篡改，威胁来自广泛的攻击媒介。恶意功能可能会在设计过程、制造或组装过程中添加到设备中，从而导致系统受损，通常不会被检测到。这一合作努力寻求通过开发新的方法和技术来增强这些设备及其各自系统的信任和安全。计划中的中心旨在使来自集成电路、体系结构、密码学、系统安全和弹性等不同领域的研究人员和从业人员能够将设备安全定位为一门连贯的、协作的学科。它将成为专注于行业的研究中心和相关数据的储存库。它将促进对话，以促进跨学科边界的进步。该网站将在网络物理和大规模系统的安全、安全架构和虚拟化以及嵌入式系统安全和隐私方面领导合作努力。它将采用先进的机器学习算法，并调查移动系统、图形处理单元和纳米设备中的侧通道和隐蔽通道的分析和缓解。该中心预计将影响网络物理系统的设计、保护和弹性，使其免受与工业、政府和军事所需的设备安全和劳动力发展相关的漏洞的影响。该中心将通过在六个地点教授的专业/学术活动和课程来传播关于设备安全的研究成果和综合理论。这些结果应该会带来显著的投资回报，因为它们改善了行业对紧急情况的准备，并提高了对频率、性质和威胁严重性的应变能力。工业与工业大学硬件和嵌入式系统安全与信任合作研究合作小组由乔治梅森大学、东北大学、康涅狄格大学、德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校、弗吉尼亚大学和莱特州立大学组成。协作者在https://www.vdl.afrl.af.mil/programs/PG_CHEST_IUCRC上建立了一个网站，提供会议材料、计划信息、出版物等。该网站将无限期提供，或在中心过渡到下一阶段之前提供。

Integrated circuit and embedded hardware devices are critical to most modern military and industrial systems for defense, energy, healthcare, banking, communication, transportation, and other sectors. These devices are more vulnerable than ever to malicious tampering by untrusted entities, with threats over a broad range of attack vectors. Malicious functionality can be added to the devices during the design process, fabrication, or assembly, leading to compromised systems, often without detection. This collaborative effort seeks to further the national defense by developing novel methodologies and technologies that enhance trust and security of these devices and their respective systems.The to-be-planned Center is intended to enable researchers and practitioners from diverse areas -- integrated circuits, architecture, cryptography, system safety and resilience, etc. -- to position device security as a coherent, collaborative discipline. It will be a hub for industry-focused research and a repository for related data. It will foster dialog to promote advances across disciplinary boundaries. The site will lead collaborative efforts in security of cyber-physical and large-scale systems, secure architecture and virtualization, and embedded system security and privacy. It will adopt advanced machine-learning algorithms, and investigate analysis and mitigation of side channels and covert channels in mobile systems, Graphical Processing Units, and nano-devices.The Center is expected to influence the design, protection, and resilience of cyber physical systems from vulnerabilities associated with device security and workforce development needed for industry, government, and military. The Center will disseminate research results and synthesized theories on device security through both professional/scholarly activities and courses taught at the six sites. The results should bring a significant return on investment, as they improve the readiness of industry for emergent conditions and improve resilience to frequencies, natures, and severities of threats.The collaborative group for the Industry & University Collaborative Research for Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust is composed of George Mason University, Northeastern University, University of Connecticut, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Virginia, and Wright State University. The collaborators host a website at https://www.vdl.afrl.af.mil/programs/PG_CHEST_IUCRC with meeting materials, program information, publications, etc. The website is made available indefinitely or until the Center transitions to the next phase.