Paper Title: Gen-Z: Built-in Security for the Data-Centric World

Paper Abstract: In today's era of a constant stream of threats and daily reports of data breaches, leaks of confidential material, and ransomware, data centers must protect every aspect of their infrastructure. In-flight, denial of service, packet injection, and time manipulation are only a few types of attacks that can occur anywhere. Gen-Z is the only interconnect with built-in security throughout its architecture. As recent events have shown, tacked-on security cannot do the job - it always has vulnerabilities at levels where developers never imagined threats could occur. Gen-Z has component authentication, hardware-enforced isolation, data plane and control plane packet authentication and encryption, buffer operations and emergency memory backup with cryptographically-secured hashing and encryption built-in. Gen-Z's open standard component authentication assures customers that every hardware component is genuine, untampered with, and trustworthy. Gen-Z's built-in security attributes are the only way to apply today's advanced understanding to threats at the interconnect level.

Paper Author: Michael Krause, Lead Architect, Gen-Z Consortium

Author Bio: Michael Krause is an HPE VP and Fellow responsible for interconnect technology development and strategy across HPE. Within the Gen-Z Consortium, Michael is the lead architect, has co-authored multiple Gen-Z specifications, and has presented Gen-Z architecture and technology in multiple industry forums.