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Mentor CEO says chips can be protected against hackers

by Richard Wilson - Electronics Weekly, Mar. 25, 2015 – 

Silicon-based hacking problems are not yet seen as a threat to security on the internet.

But this may be because any breaches of security at the silicon level are not reported.

It could also be because there are easier ways to penetrate computer networks. Most of the security problems which the internet is seeing are because people are hacking intro user level software and apps.

This may be annoying, but it is not seen as a major problem. Hacks can be stopped and blocked relatively easily with software fixes and firewalls.

But Wally Rhines, CEO, Mentor Graphics believes there will be a different scale of problem if systems are hacked at the operating system or silicon level.

"It will be a much bigger problem affecting many more people," says Rhines.

However, he believes there a number of design options available which chip designers can use to protect ICs from the hackers.


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