Implementing Power-Fingerprinting Cybersecurity Using Zynq SoCs

By Carlos R. Aguayo Gonzalez (PFP Cybersecurity), Michael Fawcett (iVeia), Dan Isaacs (Xilinx) - Xcell Daily, Jul. 30, 2015 – 

The hyper-accelerated growth of "connected everything" that is driving the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is not simply about connecting multitudes of disparate devices. It's also about the data collected, analyzed and acted upon across a broad range of applications. Critical to the concept of the IIoT is the security of the devices that collect, assimilate and transmit data to other locations.

The supersonic growth of the "connected everything" idea introduces new vulnerabilities faster than companies can implement security measures. One of the most often overlooked vulnerabilities- brought to worldwide attention by the Stuxnet virus that took out Iran's nuclear reactors in 2010-is resource-constrained hardware platforms.

PFP Cybersecurity is a technology company that has devised a unique approach to address the security problems presented by resource-constrained hardware platforms and the growth of cybersecurity threats, even Stuxnet-like viruses. iVeia helped PFP Cybersecurity implement its novel and highly effective algorithm-based cybersecurity solution for IIoT applications leveraging Xilinx's Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC. The resulting designs are nearly an order of magnitude smaller and lower in power than PFP's PC-based proof of concept.

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