Upgrade/Downgrade: Efficient and Secure Legacy Electronic System Replacement

Botero, Ulbert J.; Tehranipoor, Mohammad; Forte, Domenic

doi:10.1109/mdat.2018.2873446

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“…Furthermore, once the functionality is deduced and the netlist is reconstructed, any desired upgrades (additional logic, security primitives, etc.) can be added to the design and the new upgraded design and layout are ready for fabrication [33].…”

Section: B Obsolescencementioning

confidence: 99%

Hardware Trust and Assurance through Reverse Engineering: A Survey and Outlook from Image Analysis and Machine Learning Perspectives

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Wilson,

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In the context of hardware trust and assurance, reverse engineering has been often considered as an illegal action. Generally speaking, reverse engineering aims to retrieve information from a product, i.e., integrated circuits (ICs) and printed circuit boards (PCBs) in hardware security-related scenarios, in the hope of understanding the functionality of the device and determining its constituent components. Hence, it can raise serious issues concerning Intellectual Property (IP) infringement, the (in)effectiveness of security-related measures, and even new opportunities for injecting hardware Trojans. Ironically, reverse engineering can enable IP owners to verify and validate the design. Nevertheless, this cannot be achieved without overcoming numerous obstacles that limit successful outcomes of the reverse engineering process. This paper surveys these challenges from two complementary perspectives: image processing and machine learning. These two fields of study form a firm basis for the enhancement of efficiency and accuracy of reverse engineering processes for both PCBs and ICs. In summary, therefore, this paper presents a roadmap indicating clearly the actions to be taken to fulfill hardware trust and assurance objectives. 1

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Section: B Obsolescencementioning

confidence: 99%

Hardware Trust and Assurance through Reverse Engineering: A Survey and Outlook from Image Analysis and Machine Learning Perspectives

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“…It is very critical point for decision makers to calculate return on investment of modernization. But in military domain, upgrading the system sometimes is inevitable due to national or international standards and regulations, so that, managers must be handle the cost challenges [16].…”

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“…Legacy systems can cause vulnerability and must be upgraded [9]. Modernization should be done with long operational lifespans in mind, because, there can be cases of unknown vulnerabilities of design that appear in years [16]. For this reason, security profiling and possible vulnerabilities can be analyzed and handled carefully [18].…”

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“…For this reason, security profiling and possible vulnerabilities can be analyzed and handled carefully [18]. In doing so, the new system can benefit from improvements in security awareness [16].…”

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“…Adding new functionality or increasing performance of the completed C2 system is difficult and enhance the system complexity [16]. For example, Leopold stated that the software size and functionality increase cause unmanageable complexity which often leads to an increase in unexpected software execution failures and vulnerable attack for software exploitation.…”

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Modernization Challenges of Command and Control Systems

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Uzumcu

Mert

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Today's missions are more complex and more dynamic, requiring significantly increased capabilities and efforts. Governments aim to modernize command and control systems to address these operational needs. Also, maintaining of these huge systems are challenging, obsolescence problem makes modernization inevitable. On the other hand, managing legacy systems and their upgrades are difficult. This paper investigates the difficulties of the legacy system modernization on command and control domain. We performed Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to extract system modernization challenges from the literature.

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