Runtime SoC Security Validation

With the ever-increasing size and complexity of System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures, where numerous parties (either trusted or untrusted) are involved each playing a crucial role (e.g., providing third-party intellectual properties (IPs), accomplishing design stages like fabrication, testing, and packaging), various hardware-oriented security threats have emerged. One of the solutions against such threats is SoC-level security monitoring, which enables the possibility of validating security policies. However, due to the lack of comprehensive research in this field, its current solutions suffer from significant flaws. This chapter identifies a set of quality attributes for SoC security monitoring solutions (which mostly failed to be met by the existing solutions). The potential solutions for SoC security monitoring have been defined each evaluated based on the identified quality attributes.