The National Security Agency (NSA) has released two technical reports to address threats to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) during design and manufacturing. The reports, ‘ASIC Best Practices Threat Catalog’ and ‘ASIC Level of Assurance 1 (LoA1) Best Practices,’ outline adversary compromise categories and mitigation strategies. The Threat Catalog details 18 threat categories, including design requirements, IT systems, and third-party intellectual property. The LoA1 report, part of three planned technical reports, focuses on detecting and preventing intentional threats to ASICs. Developed with the Department of War’s Joint Federated Assurance Center Hardware Assurance Laboratories, the reports provide characteristics for threat mitigation, including access, technology, investment, value of effect, and targetability. The LoA1 report targets stakeholders in custom microelectronic hardware where system failure could impact U.S. Government capabilities.
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