Paper Title: Combating Persistent Cyber Attacks: The Secure Flash-to-Cloud Approach

Paper Abstract: With the autonomous and connected revolution underway in the automotive and industrial markets, edge nodes are rapidly becoming cyber-attack targets for both terror and financial reasons. It is critical for these devices to have a secure booting process, and the content of the devices must also be trusted. Imagine hackers getting control of the device and posing persistent cyber-security threats to the device and its content. It is crucial to prevent those attacks and enable secure updates with trusted management, which requires building a secure flash-to-cloud solution. This can be achieved by leveraging the in-memory computing capabilities of Flash devices to create a secured flash-to-cloud channel to protect against overwriting, modification, and manipulation attacks on firmware, boot images and system parameters. This solution protects the connected devices from persistent cyber-attacks, regardless of processor and OS type, by protecting the Flash contents and monitoring end-point device status. In addition, a management platform is used to maintain device-to-cloud integrity, manage self-provisioning between server and device, control software version, and detect attacks.

Paper Author: Naseem Aslam, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, Cypress Semiconductor
Yoni Kahana, VP Customers, NanoLock Security

Author Bio: Naseem Aslam has more than 20 years of technology marketing, business and ecosystem development, and applications engineering experience, during which he has grown hardware, semiconductor and software products in start-up and global, S&P 500 companies focusing on automotive, industrial and communications segments. Currently, he is Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Cypress Semiconductor Corp., where he is responsible for product line management of next-generation flash solutions. Prior to Cypress, Mr. Aslam worked at leading semiconductor companies including Altera Corp., Actel and IDT in various marketing and applications engineering roles focusing on FPGAs and communication ASSPs. Mr. Aslam holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.

Author 2 Bio: Mr. Kahana brings more than 20 years of experience in managing¸ leading and developing large-scale projects in secure telecommunications and embedded systems¸ from idea-stage to completion in R&D¸ product and business environments. Prior to joining NanoLock¸ Mr. Kahana was the Product Cybersecurity Group Manager for General Motors (GM) in Israel and the Security System Team leader and Security System Product Engineer at Qualcomm. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in elite unit where he led and developed cybersecurity solutions