Holistic Hardware Security Assessment Framework: A Microarchitectural Perspective
This addresses hardware security assessment for systems designers and researchers, but appears incremental as it builds on existing microarchitectural concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of holistic hardware security evaluation from a microarchitectural perspective by proposing a framework that categorizes threat models and provides a generic security metric to assess vulnerabilities of components and the system.
Our goal is to enable holistic hardware security evaluation from the microarchitectural point of view. To achieve this, we propose a framework that categorizes threat models based on the microarchitectural components being targeted, and provides a generic security metric that can be used to assess the vulnerability of components, as well as the system as a whole.