Trustworthy Systems

Verified value chains, innovation and competition

Authors

Arnd Weber, Sylvain Guilley, Rene Rathfelder, Marc Stöttinger, Torsten Grawunder, Christoph Lüth, Maja Malenko, Steffen Reith, Armand Puccetti, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Norbert Herfurth, Gernot Heiser and Hagen Sankowski

    School of Computer Science and Engineering
    UNSW,
    Sydney 2052, Australia

Abstract

The paper addresses three issues: The first one is vulnerabilities in IT systems, the second is significant market power in hardware production, and the third is sovereignty of nations and manufacturers regarding their IT input. The paper reviews some recent developments towards open verifiable components, such as for open processors, hardware security modules, operating systems, and semiconductor production systems. These developments provide opportunities for new products. Even manufacturers in non-leading countries might be empowered to produce hard-to-attack products. Currently pending IT security regulation will not achieve such a level of security by itself. Open and better verified, ultimately provably secure components will foster more sovereignty. Technical limits and costs of the approaches are discussed. It is concluded that fighting vulnerabilities and providing space for new products and jobs justify further privately and publicly supported research.

BibTeX Entry

  @inproceedings{Weber_GRSGLMRPSHHS_23,
    address          = {Venice, IT},
    author           = {Arnd Weber and Sylvain Guilley and Rene Rathfelder and Marc St\"{o}ttinger and Torsten Grawunder and
                        Christoph L\"{u}th and Maja Malenko and Steffen Reith and Armand Puccetti and Jean-Pierre Seifert
                        and Norbert Herfurth and Gernot Heiser and Hagen Sankowski},
    booktitle        = {International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)},
    keywords         = {Cybersecurity, open source, transparency, sovereignty, verification, supply chain, competition,
                        regulation},
    month            = jul,
    paperurl         = {https://trustworthy.systems/publications/papers/Weber_GRSGLMRPSHHS_23.pdf},
    publisher        = {IEEE},
    title            = {Verified Value Chains, Innovation and Competition},
    year             = {2023}
  }

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