Systems Engineering and Metabolic Engineering: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Trojan Side-Channels: Lightweight Hardware Trojans through Side-Channel Engineering

The general trend in semiconductor industry to separate design from fabrication leads to potential threats from untrusted integrated circuit foundries. In particular, malicious hardware components can be covertly inserted at the foundry to implement hidden backdoors for unauthorized exposure of secret information. This paper proposes a new class of hardware Trojans which intentionally induce ph...

Systems Engineering on the Dark Side of the Moon

Systems engineering is an essential discipline for both defense and commercial businesses. To date, it has not been possible for INCOSE to establish as strong a leadership presence in the commercial world as it has in the defense world. This is clearly related to the fact that heritage membership of INCOSE came largely from a defense orientation. It is also related to the author’s premise that ...

Side-Channel based Reverse Engineering for Microcontrollers

Since side-channel analysis was introduced in the mid-1990s, it has permanently been enhanced and become a reliable method for cryptanalysts to break physical implementations of cryptographic algorithms. Recently, these methods have become of interest to be used for reverse engineering program code running on microcontrollers (e.g., [QS02], [No03]), which are often used in security critical env...

The 'soft' Side of Software Engineering

Many organisations are failing to achieve the benefits they expected from their investment in information systems. At the heart of the problem is lack of attention to human and organisational factors (HOF) the 'soft' issues. This paper describes how to tackle some these issues, by elaborating on the initials of 'SOFT' as Social, Organisational, Flexibility and T-skills. 1.0 GOOD NEWS AND BAD NE...

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