NIST report highlights hardware security weaknesses as emerging focus for security community

The National Institute of Standards and Technology outlines potential security weaknesses and their consequences in a recently finalized report on hardware-related cybersecurity issues.

“Hardware is often assumed to be robust from a security perspective. However, this report documents numerous potential security failures that can occur in hardware. It also demonstrates the diverse ways in which hardware can be vulnerable,” NIST says in a Nov. 13 announcement.

The 82-page report is aimed at addressing “the dangers of vulnerabilities potentially...