Electronica: Big Tradeshows Are Back!

CYBERSECURITY 

The last few years have clearly shown a lot more progress in terms of adding hardware security capabilities to processors, particularly in the Arm ecosystem around the Cortex-M33 and ongoing broadening of companies that provide offerings compatible with the platform system architecture. I had the chance to talk with one of my favorite journalists, Nitin Dahad, about some recent examples of malware being introduced by containers. We went on to review some best practices around the use of containers and where we see unikernels, such as LynxElement, fitting in as part of a strategy to reduce the attack surface.

ai/machine learning

After a lot of hand waving about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, this show seemed to showcase some tangible examples of how to embrace it and the benefits it is bringing to actual use cases. For us, one of the areas of focus is how the combination of hypervisor and applications can be used to give a much earlier detection of systems that have been compromised. This is important, as many times it can take hackers some time to identify valuable assets. There are many stories about systems being accessed and companies taking months to realize the incursion. One such example is shown here. Hypervisors are placed in an ideal location in the stack to gather important system information which can then be used for system health. As I outlined in the line below, systems need to “define” normal, then “identify” abnormal and then “handle” (or recover from) abnormal. See image below.


Materials around these three areas are available from me. Just drop an email to me here.