ISO/IEC TR 5891:2024

Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection — Hardware monitoring technology for hardware security assessment

This document surveys and summarizes the existing hardware monitoring methods, including research efforts and industrial applications. The explored monitoring technologies are classified by applied area, carrier type, target entity, objective pattern, and method of deployment. Moreover, this document summarizes the possible ways of utilizing monitoring technologies for hardware security assessment with some existing state-of-the-art security assessment approaches. The hardware mentioned in this document refers only to the core processing hardware, such as the central processing unit (CPU), microcontroller unit (MCU), and system on a chip (SoC), in the von Neumann system and does not include single-input or single-output devices such as memory or displays. The hardware monitoring technology discussed in this document has the following considerations and restrictions: — the monitored target is for the post-silicon phase, not for the design-house phase (e.g. an RTL or netlist design); — monitoring is only applied to the runtime system.

Sécurité de l’information, cybersécurité et protection de la vie privée — Technologie de surveillance des matériels pour l'évaluation de leur sécurité

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 02-Apr-2024
• ICS: 35.030 - IT Security
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 - Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 - Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection
• Current Stage: 6060 - International Standard published
• Start Date: 03-Apr-2024
• Due Date: 19-Oct-2022
• Completion Date: 03-Apr-2024

Standards Content (Sample)

Technical
Report
ISO/IEC TR 5891
First edition
Information security, cybersecurity
2024-04
and privacy protection — Hardware
monitoring technology for
hardware security assessment
Sécurité de l’information, cybersécurité et protection de la
vie privée — Technologie de surveillance des matériels pour
l'évaluation de leur sécurité
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Abbreviated terms . 2
5 Relationship to existing standards . 2
5.1 Standards of security assessment .2
5.2 Relationship to ISO/IEC 15408-3 .3
5.3 Relationship to ISO/IEC TS 30104 .3
6 Background . 3
6.1 Complexity and security .3
6.2 Challenges in defining hardware security assessment techniques .3
7 Hardware monitoring technologies . 4
7.1 Overview .4
7.2 Research in academic areas .4
7.3 Industrial cases .5
7.4 Purpose .6
7.4.1 Security . . .6
7.4.2 Debugging .7
7.4.3 Tuning performance .8
7.4.4 Fault tolerance and QoS .8
7.4.5 Physical specification measurement .9
7.4.6 Application-specific monitoring .10
7.5 Carrier type .10
7.5.1 Middleware .10
7.5.2 Software .11
7.5.3 Hardware-assisted monitors . 13
7.5.4 Software vs. hardware-assisted solutions .16
7.6 Target entity .16
7.6.1 IP cores .16
7.6.2 Processing units . .17
7.6.3 Memory .17
7.6.4 Peripheral devices .18
7.7 Objective patterns .18
7.7.1 Information content .18
7.7.2 Physical specification .18
7.7.3 Behaviours .18
7.8 Deployment method .19
7.8.1 General .19
7.8.2 Intrusiveness .19
7.8.3 Offline or online .19
7.8.4 Synchronous or asynchronous .19
7.8.5 Single or multiple monitors .19
7.8.6 Scalability .19
7.8.7 Resilience and redundancy . 20
7.8.8 Compatibility . 20
7.8.9 Impact on performance . 20
7.8.10 Lawful and ethical data handling regulations and requirements . 20
8 Utilizing monitoring technologies for hardware security assessment .20
8.1 Existing state-of-the-art security assessment approaches . 20
8.2 How hardware monitoring can help .21

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8.3 Challenges . 22
9 Certification for monitoring hardware .24
Bibliography .27

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