Overview
Provides insights from the inventors of many of the defenses
Shows you how to apply the best-known methods from the authors' years of platform deployment and standards work
Teaches you how to integrate real code mapping to theory
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Security Development
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About this book
As operating systems and hypervisors have become successively more hardened, malware has moved further down the stack and into firmware. Firmware represents the boundary between hardware and software, and given its persistence, mutability, and opaqueness to today’s antivirus scanning technology, it represents an interesting target for attackers.
As platforms are universally network-connected and can contain multiple devices with firmware, and a global supply chain feeds into platform firmware, assurance is critical for consumers, IT enterprises, and governments. This importance is highlighted by emergent requirements such as NIST SP800-193 for firmware resilience and NIST SP800-155 for firmware measurement.
This book covers the secure implementation of various aspects of firmware, including standards-based firmware—such as support of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF), and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specifications—and also provides code samples and use cases. Beyond the standards, alternate firmware implementations such as ARM Trusted Firmware and other device firmware implementations (such as platform roots of trust), are covered.
What You Will Learn
- Get an overview of proactive security development for firmware, including firmware threat modeling
- Understand the details of architecture, including protection, detection, recovery, integrity measurement, and access control
- Be familiar with best practices for secure firmware development, including trusted execution environments, cryptography, and language-based defenses
- Know the techniques used for security validation and maintenance
Who This Book Is For
Given the complexity of modern platform boot requirements and the threat landscape, this book is relevant for readers spanning from IT decision makers to developers building firmware
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Vincent Zimmer is a senior principal engineer in the Intel Architecture, Graphics, and Software Group. He has been engaged as a firmware developer for over 25 years and leads the UEFI Security sub team. He has presented at industry events such as the Open Source Firmware Conference, Linux Fest Northwest, Intel Developer Forum, UEFI Plugfest, Open Compute Project Summit, BlackHat Las Vegas, BSides Seattle, Toorcon, and Cansecwest. In addition to collaborating with Jiewen Yao on many white papers, he has co-authored several books on firmware, papers, and over 400 issued US patents.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Secure Firmware
Book Subtitle: Armoring the Foundation of the Platform
Authors: Jiewen Yao, Vincent Zimmer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6106-4
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Jiewen Yao and Vincent Zimmer 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6105-7Published: 28 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6106-4Published: 27 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 930
Number of Illustrations: 423 b/w illustrations
Topics: Security