Hardware security starts in design
Overview
Secure the chip design lifecycle from code to fab
- Cover static security analysis and dynamic verification across IP blocks, subsystems, SoCs, and firmware-aware systems.
- Track critical assets and attack surfaces to find unexpected security behaviors before they become field risk.
- Use repeatable security rules and coverage metrics to document progress from exploration to signoff.
Advantages
Design with confidence across modern semiconductor security programs
Cycuity Radix helps engineering teams move from isolated checks to a structured verification process that is asset-driven, measurable, and reusable across projects.
Detect risks others miss
Identify security weaknesses from microarchitecture to firmware.
Secure critical assets
Track critical assets and monitor attack surfaces to find and fix unexpected security behaviors.
Verify security effectiveness
Measure the effectiveness of your security protocols and pinpoint areas needing further testing.
Ensure system-level security
Detect security flaws at the IP block level, during system integration, and in software configuration through scalable, repeatable security verification.
Prevent risks at the source
Uncover root-cause weaknesses before they become vulnerabilities, including known and emerging CWE-documented risks.
Document signoff
Build an evidence trail that connects requirements, rules, monitors, analysis results, and coverage outcomes.
Industry challenges
Advancing Defense Tech Security
Challenges in protecting sensitive aerospace and defense systems against advanced persistent threats and ensuring compliance with military-grade security standards. Securing complex electronic systems against state-level cyber espionage, safeguarding mission-critical applications, and maintaining the integrity of defense technology in hostile environments.
Protecting mission-critical applications
Aerospace and defense missions rely on the uncompromised performance of their applications. Ensuring these systems are invulnerable to cyber intrusions is paramount to national security and operational success.
Meeting security standards
The defense sector is governed by stringent security standards that require comprehensive and up-to-date verification methods to ensure all electronic systems are safeguarded against both known and emerging threats.
Complex threat landscape
As aerospace and defense systems grow more interconnected, the cyber threat landscape becomes increasingly complex, exposing critical systems to sophisticated cyber-espionage tactics.
Automotive Cybersecurity
The automotive ecosystem is a complex network of interconnected electronic components and integrations, amplifying the challenge of safeguarding against potential hardware vulnerabilities. In the age of smart cars and autonomous driving, automotive manufacturers face unique cybersecurity challenges. Safeguarding the intricate web of electronic components, from ECUs to sensors, is paramount. The intersection of hardware and software creates vulnerabilities that demand a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity.
Security IP integration challenges
As vehicle technology advances, so do the standards and regulations that govern them to ensure vehicle safety. Meeting industry-specific cybersecurity standards and regulations, such as ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE #155, becomes a crucial focus for automotive suppliers and manufacturers.
Guarding against cyber threats
In an era where cars are becoming sophisticated connected devices, the risk of cyber threats looms large. Ensuring the security of onboard computers, electronic control units (ECUs), and communication networks is essential to prevent unauthorized access, tampering, and potential malicious control of the vehicle. Hardware security is the first line of defense against cyber-attacks targeting vehicles.
Protecting sensitive data
Modern vehicles process and store an abundance of sensitive data, ranging from personal preferences to navigation history. Robust hardware security safeguards this information against unauthorized access, ensuring the privacy and protection of driver and passenger data. The trust placed in automotive manufacturers to handle this data responsibly relies on effective hardware security measures.
Data Centers
Data centers serve as the backbone of modern computing infrastructure, housing vast amounts of information for businesses, governments, and individuals. Comprehensive hardware security is critical to protect data centers against complex cyber threats that target both physical infrastructure and stored data.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
Robust hardware security measures ensure that the integrity and confidentiality of data remain intact. Cycuity Radix helps verify security requirements preserving the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information across the development lifecycle, and that features such as roots of trust are working as intended.
Data integrity and confidentiality
Data centers are subject to stringent regulatory requirements that dictate how data must be managed and protected. adhering to these evolving standards requires a proactive and verifiable approach to hardware security verification, maintaining compliance and customer trust.
Infrastructure security
Data centers’ physical and network infrastructure is vital to their operation. Security verification plays a crucial role in protecting the underlying hardware architecture of these systems, and reducing the risk of cyberattacks that aim to compromise servers, steal data or disrupt operations.
Securing the Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem
In the dynamic landscape of the IoT, the integrity of every device hinges on the strength of its underlying hardware security. Ensuring the security and integrity of IoT devices that are often built with cost and convenience in mind, not security, is critical to protecting the vast amounts of data they generate from sophisticated cyber threats.
Vulnerability of interconnected systems
IoT devices range from simple home sensors to complex industrial controllers. The diversity and scale of these devices introduce multiple vulnerabilities, especially in systems where security has not been prioritized.
Protection of sensitive information
IoT devices generate and transmit sensitive data, which must be protected against interception and unauthorized access to maintain user privacy and data integrity.
Enabling lifecycle and supply chain security
The lifecycle of IoT devices involves various stages, from manufacturing to deployment, and eventual decommissioning. Robust hardware security practices ensure that devices are secure at every step., IoT devices must maintain a strong security posture, even as they pass through various hands in a complex supply chain.
Use cases
Roots of trust
Hardware roots of trust have become the foundation of semiconductor security. See how you can build a more secure system with hardware security assurance from Cycuity.
Application processors
Modern microprocessors are core to the applications that power cars, data centers, and mobile phones. As their performance has grown, so have their vulnerabilities.
System-on-Chips
Fundamental to the security of IoT, automotive, and datacenters is the security of the SoCs that power them. Verify the security of increasingly complex SoCs with Cycuity Radix.
Microcontrollers
Microcontrollers are responsible for the core functionality of embedded devices in consumer electronics, cars, medical devices and more. Securing their operation is critical for product safety and security.
Cybersecurity compliance
As regulations evolve to keep pace with innovation, ensure that your hardware not only complies with existing frameworks but is also resilient against future hardware security challenges.
Incorporating CWE
The industry’s formal list of common hardware weaknesses is the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a list created and curated by MITRE. For organizations seeking a “secure by design” approach, testing against the CWE list is critical.
Hardware security assurance products
Cycuity Radix-S incorporates security verification into existing simulation flows to proactively detect and mitigate security threats across IP blocks, subsystems, and SoCs.
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Cycuity Radix-M leverages commercial emulators to extend security verification to the SoC and system-level, addressing risks that may be introduced by firmware and software.
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Cycuity Radix-ST is a static security analyzer designed to identify potential design weaknesses early in the development lifecycle without requiring simulation or emulation.
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