Enhancing EU Cyber Defense Through Hardware Trojans Detection Capabilities

defense industry, hardware Trojans, System-on-Chip, reverse engineering, image acquisition

Authors

  • Vasile-Florin POPESCU
    popescu.vflorin@unap.ro (Primary Contact)
    Carol I” National Defence University of Bucharest, Faculty of Security and Defence
  • Victor GÂNSAC SAFETECH Innovation
  • Olivia COMȘA SAFETECH Innovation
  • Cristian ICHIMESCU Carol I” National Defence University of Bucharest, Faculty of Security and Defence
  • Dănuț TURCU “Carol I” National Defence University of Bucharest, Faculty of Security and Defence
  • George BUCĂȚA “Nicolae Bălcescu” Land Forces Academy of Sibiu, Faculty of Military Management
2023-05-30

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Software Trojans and cybersecurity are a concern worldwide. Hardware Trojans are likely to be an issue faced by the Defence Industry of all countries. Information on how defense industry stakeholders deal with HT in Defense Products is by nature scarce or even inaccessible. It is however fair to assume that they adapt and use IC RE methodologies, notably some developed for IP infringement, to search for HTs. With these RE methodologies, checking a chip after its fabrication implies to deconstruct and analyze the whole surface and all the layers of a chip. It is thus hard to know for sure which states has acquired Hardware Trojan detection capabilities. There are however indications that some States could be in the process of acquiring such capabilities.