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Hardware analysis

Hardware analysis

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Hardware analysis

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- Hardware analysis is a specialized field in cybersecurity that focuses on examining physical devices to detect, analyze, and mitigate threats embedded in hardware components. This involves inspecting and testing physical devices like CPUs, memory chips, and embedded systems, to identify and assess vulnerabilities that could compromise security. The key goals of hardware analysis are to identify specific hardware-based threats, such as firmware, tampering, or embedded malware. Enabling secure forensic analysis, aiding and uncovering the root cause of issues, and assisting in reconstructing how a hardware compromise happened, and mitigating vulnerabilities, targeting hardware flaws. Joint Test Action Group, JTAG, is a standard for testing and debugging integrated circuits, ICs. It was originally developed to assist with manufacturing test for circuit boards. JTAG has become widely used for debugging and analyzing hardware and cybersecurity. With JTAG, analysts can assess the internal…

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