PRESS RELEASE

 Hardwear.io announces the 3rd Hardware Security Training & Conference to be held online, 5-10th July 2021 featuring Keynote Speakers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Dalhousie University of Canada.

 

 

 

 

 

Organizer

Hardwear.io

Event Summary

3rd Edition Hardware Security Training & Conference

Venue

Online, Zoom & Discord

Training

Conference

July 5th to 8th  2021

July 9th to 10th  2021

URL:

https://hardwear.io/usa-2021/

USA – June 23rd 2021: Hardwear.io, USA’s virtual platform for hardware research and innovation, welcomes hundreds of hardware security experts and academia to its 6-day event, July 5-10, 2021. Keynote Speakers will share the latest security research and attack threats to help the hardware and security community to defend their products. More speakers from NCC Group, Google’s OpenTitan project, Riscure and more will share practical insight and tools to the hardware security community. 

 

Many vendors do not always treat hardware security as a priority because of the time and effort involved. That is why platforms and virtual conferences such as Hardwear.io are useful to help InfoSec professionals learn about the latest research and tools they need to protect their IoT devices.

Antriksh Shah

Founder, Hardwear.io

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(Almost) Automatic Testing of Cellular Security

Keynote Speaker: Yongdae Kim

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST

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The Cheapskate Revolution: Hardware Attacks from Millions to Tens of Dollars

Keynote Speaker: Colin O’Flynn

C.T.O. of NewAE Technology Inc.

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Interacting with *OS hardware from user space

Speaker: Dr. Jiska Classen

Postdoc at TU Darmstadt

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Secure Builds for Secure Software

Speaker: Chris Frantz

Site Reliability Engineer at Google OpenTitan project

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Building CANtact Pro: An Open Source CAN Bus Tool

Speaker: Eric Evenchick

Director – Linklayer Labs

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Boost your hardware reversing with glscopeclient

Speaker: Andrew Zonenberg

Associate Principal Security Consultant at IOActive

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Extracting programmable logic with photons

Speaker: John McMaster

Independent Hardware Security Researcher

Training sessions:

  • Protecting the CAN bus by Ken Tindell, CTO of Canis Automotive Labs
  • Assessing and Exploiting PLCs by Justin Searle, Director of ICS Security at InGuardians,
  • IC Reverse Engineering & Code Dump by Olivier Thomas, CTO of Texplained
  • Reverse Engineering Firmware with Ghidra by Eric Evenchick, Technical Director at NCC Group
  • BootPwn: Breaking Secure Boot by Experience by Niek Timmers & Cristofaro Mune, Founders of Raelize
  • EMFI and Voltage Fault injection attacks with Raiden by Grzegorz Wypych, Security Researcher at IBM XForce & Adam Laurie, Partner at IBM XForce
  • Optimizing Crypto on Embedded Microcontrollers by Peter Schwabe, Research Group Leader at Radboud University & Matthias Kannwischer, PhD Student at Radboud University

If there is a vulnerability on the software side, it can be easily patched, but if there is a vulnerability on the hardware side, it can mean the hardware manufacturer may have to rebuild everything from scratch. The research projects presented at Hardwear.io USA will be used by people who build and secure new silicon products. Members of the audience will become aware of such vulnerabilities, and they will be more sensitive to preventing and fixing them in future products. Moreover, such research also helps companies identify counterfeit products available in the market. This is especially important, as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the balance between supply and demand and counterfeit chips are spreading due to the global semiconductor shortage.

Antriksh Shah

Founder, Hardwear.io

Hardwear.io USA will be held virtually for the second time. Over 1500 hardware security experts from the industry and academia participated in first-ever virtual Hardwear.io USA conference in 2020. The event kicks off with 7 training sessions for 4 days from 5th July 2021, while the Conference will happen between the 9th–10th of July.

Attendees at Hardwear.io will have the opportunity to network and find solutions to address business needs. In addition to the training sessions and conference talks, Hardwear.io has come up with extracurricular activities highly beneficial as they provide its audience useful soft and hard skills through fun and entertaining activities:

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Fix-Up

Fix-Up is a unique networking event for the attendees to network and find their next hardware research collaboration or business partner.

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Hospital Under Siege CTF

8th July

a scenario-driven Capture the Flag contest, where participants compete on both real and simulated medical devices. Challenges will draw from expert areas including forensics, RF hacking, network exploitation techniques, web security, protocol reverse engineering, hardware hacking, and others.

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Capture the Signal CTF

9-10th July

a new challenge-based CTF contest that focuses exclusively on the reverse engineering of radio signals. Participants will have to examine a series of increasingly complex radio signals to extract key information leading them to the final exit signal.

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Wall Puzzle Contest

9-10th July

a cryptographic challenge where puzzles are posted at random times during the conference. Participants must check all the sessions to solve all the challenges with knowledge of cryptography, physics, chemistry, electronics, computers, mathematics, history, and vexillogy.

Conference is endorsed by Google, NCC Group, NVIDIA, Synacktiv and NXP.