Towards detection of modified firmware on solid state drives via side channel analysis
Dane Brown, T. Owens Walker, Ryan N. Rakvic, Robert W. Ives, Hau Ngo, James Shey, Justin A. Blanco · Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems · 2018
Modern embedded devices are getting cheaper, easier to produce, and smarter. These smarter devices are able to store and process data locally at a scale that would have been infeasible until recent years. Functions that used to be performed on more powerful, dedicated systems and servers with security features are now being pushed to these unsecured commercial embedded devices. In the Internet of Things (IoT) space, this problem is manifesting itself with almost daily reports of compromise of network-connected embedded systems. While IoT device insecurity makes for attention-grabbing headlines, there are entire classes of embedded devices which do not have direct Internet connectivity for which security is still vitally important.