The National Security Agency (NSA) has released two technical reports to help mitigate threats during the development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The reports, ‘ASIC Best Practices Threat Catalog’ and ‘ASIC Level of Assurance 1 (LoA1) Best Practices,’ outline threats targeting ASICs in design and manufacturing processes. The Threat Catalog details 18 adversary compromise categories, including design requirements, IT systems, and third-party intellectual property, with corresponding mitigations. The LoA1 report, part of a series establishing three ‘Levels of Assurance’ for custom microelectronics, focuses on detecting and preventing intentional threats. It provides risk assessment criteria such as access, technology complexity, investment, and targetability. Developed with the Department of War’s Joint Federated Assurance Center, the guidelines aim to enhance security for ASIC-based systems critical to U.S. Government operations.
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