Hardware Cyberattacks: How Worried Should You Be?
How to fit hardware threats into your security model as hardware becomes smaller, faster, cheaper, and more complex.
For most organizations, it s time to put modern hardware threats into perspective.
This year has had its share of hardware scares. We kicked off 2018 with the Spectre and Meltdown attacks; most recently, a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report detailed how Chinese plants implanted network monitoring and control chips on motherboards made for Supermicro.
Hardware technology – and, consequently, hardware attacks – have come a long way as devices have grown smaller, faster, cheaper, and more complex. Attacks that used to cost thousands of dollars can be done for a few hundred bucks or less. Now people panic when a report describes an implant the size of a grain of rice, one which is allegedly everywhere but nobody can find it.