Planning IUCRC University of Connecticut: Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST)

这项计划补助金将用于研究建立大学与工业界合作伙伴关系的可行性，重点是硬件和嵌入式系统的安全和信任。在拟议的中心进行的竞争前研究将得到中心行业成员的全力支持。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、运输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受信任实体的恶意篡改，威胁范围广泛。 恶意功能可以在设计过程、制造或组装过程中添加到设备中，导致系统受损，通常无法检测到。 这项合作努力旨在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性，从而进一步促进国防。拟议中的中心将使来自集成电路、设计、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个连贯的协作学科。 它将成为以行业为重点的研究中心和相关数据的储存库。 它将促进对话，以促进跨学科的进步。 康涅狄格大学的网站将领导在假冒集成电路和安全嵌入式系统的合作努力。 它将开发新的硬件认证技术;安全嵌入式系统的形式验证技术;安全嵌入式系统设计的风险模型;以及设计安全嵌入式处理器的方法。拟议的中心将影响网络物理系统的设计，保护和恢复能力，以应对与工业，政府和军队所需的设备安全和劳动力发展相关的漏洞。 该中心将通过多种渠道传播设备安全的研究成果和综合理论，包括在六个地点教授的课程和专业/学术活动。 结果带来了显着的投资回报，因为它们提高了行业对紧急情况的准备，并提高了对财产损失，失去信任和系统安全方面的威胁的弹性，涉及任务，伤害，伤亡，级联效应等。工业&大学硬件和嵌入式系统安全与信任合作研究的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、弗吉尼亚大学和赖特州立大学。 合作者在https://www.vdl.afrl.af.mil/programs/PG_CHEST_IUCRC上建立了一个网站，提供会议材料、项目信息、出版物等。该网站无限期开放，或直到中心过渡到下一阶段。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This planning grant award will be used to study the feasibility of establishing a university-industry partnership focusing on hardware and embedded systems security and trust. Pre-competitive research conducted in the proposed Center would be fully supported by the Center's industry members. 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 proposed Center will enable researchers and practitioners from diverse areas -- integrated circuits, design, 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 University of Connecticut site will lead collaborative efforts in counterfeit integrated circuits and secure embedded systems. It will develop novel hardware authentication technologies; formal verification techniques for secure embedded systems; risk models for the design of secure embedded systems; and methods to design secure embedded processors.The proposed Center will 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 multiple channels, including courses taught at the six sites and professional/scholarly activities. The results bring a significant return on investment, as they improve the readiness of industry for emergent conditions and improve resilience to threats in terms of property loss, lost trust, and system safety with respect to missions, injuries, casualties, cascading effects, etc.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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.