System Security Integrated Through Hardware and software (SSITH)
Abstract
System Security Integrated Through Hardware and software (SSITH) seeks to better protect DoD systems by exploring innovative approaches that combine hardware and software to provide enhanced system security. Traditional cybersecurity approaches have focused either on software or hardware, but rarely on an integration of both domains. By exploring integrated hardware/software solutions, SSITH will combine the efficiency and robustness of hardware with the flexibility and adaptability of software to provide security solutions that are resistant to attack and adaptive to new attack approaches. The program is based on the concept that co-design of hardware and software provides new modalities to protect electronic systems. The SSITH program will pursue several hardware/software approaches to enhancing electronic system security. First, the program will investigate new co-designed hardware/software architectures that are inherently more secure than current electronic systems. Second, the program will investigate hardware/software architectures that are flexible and can adapt to new system attack methods and vectors. Third, the program will examine methods to reduce the power/performance overhead required to implement novel and powerful protection methods recently conceived in the security community.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- aa09c3ca53abfc5ba6b8a5e5e36d8bf1