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Integrated Circuit Offensive Security | Olivier Thomas from Texplained | hardwear.io USA 2019

https://media.hardwear.io/integrated-circuit-offensive-security-olivier-thomas/

You've always wanted to see what's inside an Integrated Circuit? This video shows you the internal architecture of a chip, down to its Standard Cell Library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urUFiNcingQ

PR – Neotion partners with Texplained creating stronger Secure by Design ICs

Aubagne, France – April, 3rd, 2018 – NEOTION, a leading provider of secure solutions for Pay-Tv industry and recently targeting the IoT market, has selected Texplained, another French company with a team of experts in Secure ICs Architecture and Reverse Engineering,...

On the Impact of Placement on Integrated Circuit Reverse-Engineering

On the Impact of Placement on Integrated Circuit Reverse-Engineering Integrated Circuit (IC) Reverse-Engineering (RE) requires delayering and imagery steps. Those tasks are both challenging as the resulting pictures - made with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) -...

The problem of IC counterfeiting and its solution

The problem of IC counterfeiting and its solution Clarisse GINET - CEO @Texplained Counterfeit Information and Communication Technology (ICT) goods accounted for 6.5 % of ICT global market in 2013, representing USD 143 bn of loss for the whole related industry...

How to become a silicon level security professional?

How to become a silicon level security professional? Hardware attacks are often thought to be about spying bus on a circuit board (PCB) or being about measuring an Integrated Circuit power consumption (SPA, DPA, ...) in order to extract its cryptographic keys and...

Behind the horror are important and real hardware security questions

Behind the horror are important and real hardware security questions Olivier Thomas - Founder and CTO @ Texplained As CTO of Texplained but mainly as a hardware reverse-engineer, I wanted to comment on some of the recent articles I read about extracting the secrets...