Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: As Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) become increasingly adopted in enterprise networks, so it is essential to continuously monitor the security status of connected devices. Real-time threat monitoring within the devices that are connected to the network is necessary for this. It's challenging, especially in resource-constrained settings, to ensure continuous monitoring in current devices available in market. ProTECT (Programmable Threat Evaluation and Control Unit) addresses this challenge by providing a continuous real-time monitoring, non-tamperable, trust score for ZTA network connected devices. Trust score in security coprocessor segregated from device computing architecture has been determined employing real-time hardware monitoring of CPU micro-architectural signals. We examined ProTECT on an open-source RISC-V processor based architecture against ransomware, RoP & cache-based micro-architectural attacks. While illustrating area overheads, we implement framework on an AMD Virtex XC7V2000T FPGA Module.
DOI: 10.22399/ijcesen.673
Authors: Rahul SHANDILYA, R.K. SHARMA
Institution: National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405330316