Hardware Backdoors

STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Malicious circuits implanted during chip manufacturing.

Target

Instructions

Layer in the inventory

ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) / FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays)

Mitigation

Secure chip design & visual inspection.

How the inventory says to fix it

AI/ML: Computer Vision for visual inspection of silicon dies to detect non-standard circuitry patterns.

Quick fix

N/A

ML approaches named

Random Forest (RF), Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) & Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM)

Methodology

By analyzing side-channel data (power, electromagnetic radiation, or timing) to identify anomalies that deviate from a "golden" (trusted) IC model

Handler role

Hardware Engineer

Stage

Manufacturing

Standard named

ISO 20243

Status in the inventory

Partially managed

STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Connection recorded in the inventory

Supply Chain Interdiction

• Supply Chain Interdiction