“We basically emulate the hacker, figuring out what would they want to get out of an attack.”
struggled to release adequate fixes on the fly. Ultimately, chips needed to be fundamentally rearchitected to address the risk.
The iSTARE team says they feel acutely the responsibility of working on projects that will end up as ubiquitous Intel chips. And they must also live with the reality that some flaws and vulnerabilities will always slip by. “Chip vendors have to add extra features and bells and whistles so they can sell new, shiny things to the market, and that translates to billions more transistors on a chip,” Cui says. “So you're adding known and unknown vulnerabilities to this very complicated piece of hardware, and adding more and more things for these teams to defend against.”
Security and privacy auditors can often seem like unwelcome Cassandras in large organizations, always nitpicking and finding problems that create more work for everyone. Bear agrees that part of iSTARE's job is to be aware of this dynamic and deliver findings tactfully.
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