The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University invites you to attend a free public seminar featuring Dr. Costas Kolias, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Idaho. Kolias is scheduled to present his talk Identifying Unauthorized Hardware Substitutions in the Supply Chain Jungle.
ABSTRACT | In this talk, we will present a system for branding digital device components based on the EM signals typically emitted during their normal operational cycles. The signals emitted contain digital artifacts that are unique and may act as an identifier of a particular device component (e.g. a CPU) or the entire device. In real-life scenarios, this “biometrical” fingerprinting of hardware has to be conducted only once. The fingerprinting could be conducted by network administrators as part of an initial device configuration process with minimum additional maintenance time and cost. In subsequent stages, devices can be “authenticated”‘ by comparing current EM signals against the signals recorded during configuration. Experimental results attest that the proposed approach can effectively protect a network against unrecognized and potentially malicious substitutions of hardware components.
SPEAKER BIO | Constantinos Kolias joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Idaho in 2018. His main research interest revolves around security and privacy for the Internet of Things and critical infrastructures. In 2015 he created and released the first wireless dataset specifically intended for research in wireless security, namely the AWID dataset. Today AWID has been downloaded and used as a benchmark by hundreds of organizations and universities.