Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day and needs him… Read More
Congratulations to Associate Director of FICS Research Dr. Farahmandi and her recent recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award for contributions in the field of microelectronic security and hardware security verification. This award recognizes untenured, full time… Read More
Using a $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of researchers led by the University of Florida will examine the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations among security and privacy technologies. The project, supported by the… Read More
Cybersecurity is an ever-changing field of research, with new forms of security threats appearing often. One increasingly common threat, surveillanceware, involves a malicious individual installing software on a victim’s mobile device enabling secret remote monitoring of the device’s activity. Using… Read More
Background A multi-departmental team from the University of Florida, Dr. Shigang Chen, Dr. Samuel Wu, Dr. David Vaillancourt, and Dr. Kejun Huang, was recently rewarded a $1,172,041 grant from the National Institute of Health on AI-powered medical research, specifically for… Read More
FICS Research at the University of Florida in collaboration with researchers from the Ohio State University ran a Hardware Assurance Survey aimed at identifying key areas of interest for future research, development, and collaborations between Government, Industry, and Academia. The… Read More
Our proposal presents a first-ever methodology to enable hardware reconfiguration of interconnects and I/O inside the package even after the chip is fabricated. The prime feature of this novel technique is the trusted designer or IP owner will have the… Read More
ECE Assistant Professor and member of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research Farimah Farahmandi has been awarded a $500K grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for her project, “Security-Aware High-Level Synthesis (SHINE).” The project, which simultaneously introduces enhanced security strategies… Read More
ECE Assistant Professor and member of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research Navid Asadi is partnering with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) on a system which promises secure fabrication of electronic systems. The $900K project—SAIPA, a Security-Aware Interposer design for heterogeneous PAckaging—works to explore the vulnerabilities… Read More
With the ubiquitous use of IoT devices in all walks of life, SoCs are subjected to various attacks to extract security assets throughout their lifecycle. Arm has an architected and evolving family of secure enclave implementations possessing a variety of… Read More