About this course: In this course, we will study security and trust from the hardware perspective. Upon completing the course, students will understand the vulnerabilities in current digital system design flow and the physical attacks to these systems. They will learn that security starts from hardware design and be familiar with the tools and skills to build secure and trusted hardware.
Created by: University of Maryland, College Park
Taught by: Gang Qu, Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
| Basic Info |
Course 4 of 5 in the
Cybersecurity Specialization.
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| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Digital System Design: Basics and Vulnerabilities
To learn hardware security, we first need to learn how hardware is designed. This week's lectures give an overview of the basics on digital logic design, which is a semester-long course for freshmen and sophomores in most schools. By no means we can cover all ...
7 videos, 2 readings
Graded: Quiz
WEEK 2
Design Intellectual Property Protection
As a hardware designer or a company, you want to protect your design intellectual property (IP) from being misused (by users, competitors, silicon foundry, etc). We will cover how you can build such protection during the design process which can be used as an ...
6 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Quiz
WEEK 3
Physical Attacks and Modular Exponentiation
This week you will learn the fundamentals about physical attacks: what are physical attacks, who are the attackers, what are their motivations, how can they attack your system (from hardware), what kind of skills/tools/equipment they should need to break your ...
7 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Quiz
WEEK 4
Side Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
This week, we focus on side channel attacks (SCA). We will study in-depth the following SCAs: cache attacks, power analysis, timing attacks, scan chain attacks. We will also learn the available countermeasures from software, hardware, and algorithm design.
5 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Quiz
WEEK 5
Hardware Trojan Detection and Trusted IC Design
This week we study hardware Trojan and trusted integrated circuit (IC) design. Hardware Trojans are additions or modifications of the circuit with malicious purposes. It has become one of the most dangerous and challenging threats for trusted ID design. We wil...
5 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Quiz
WEEK 6
Good Practice and Emerging Technologies
This is the last week and we will cover some positive things on hardware security. We start with trust platform module (TPM), followed by physical unclonable functin (PUF), and FPGA-based system design. We conclude with a short discussion on the roles that har...
6 videos, 1 reading
Graded: Quiz
WEEK 7
Final Exam
Graded: Final Exam
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I found this course very informative, it expanded to me the landscape of cyber security.
Excellent
This is not a class for a non-computer scientist or a non-electrical engineer. It's frustrating to learn the material this way, but the information is valuable.
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