Webinar: Caspia Shows You How to Fix Security Flaws Before It’s Too Late

I recently posted an overview of an upcoming webinar from Caspia Technologies. That post provides background on the excellent speakers who will present and an overview of the topics they will cover.  I recently had the opportunity to attend a dry run of the entire event. The details presented are quite impactful, so I thought I’d provide an update.

Chip-level vulnerability is becoming an existential threat for virtually all systems. The time to ensure your chip designs are resistant to these attacks is now. This upcoming webinar provides important information on how to build attack-resistant chips. Let’s examine how Caspia shows you how to fix security flaws before it’s too late.

The Presentation

Beau Bakken begins the webinar with a presentation that covers many key topics. He provides an overview of the growing threat landscape. The statistics he shares may shock you. What you don’t know can hurt you. AI agents such as Claude Mythos are autonomously discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities at machine speed. Are you ready for these assaults?

Beau then explores what’s needed to build the required security verification and repair into your design flow. Expertise and scalability are key requirements here. He describes how Caspia’s static RTL checking tool, CODAx adds critical security checking and repair capabilities to any design flow. He shows how to expand your existing Lint processes to include extensive security checks with a tool that is built for non-security engineers. The figure below illustrates how CODAx fits into existing flows.

He then covers some of the very useful new features of the recent CODAx release. These include:

Asset Assist: that automatically identifies security-critical assets, eliminating manual security annotation for certain CODAx checks. This reduces reliance on security experts, enabling non-experts to run with minimal setup.

Report Assist: that summarizes complex violation reports, condensing detailed findings into clear, high-level insights. This facilitates prioritizing highest-risk issues by ranking violations based on impact and exploitability. The result is streamlined triage and remediation, providing a guided context to accelerate debugging and fixes.

The Demo

Dr. Zahin Ibnat then takes you through a comprehensive hands-on security analysis demo. The popular Caliptra open-source root-of-trust design is the primary focus here. She begins with a detailed overview of the design and how CODAx was applied to it. She describes the security issues that were found. A summary of these security issues is shown in the figure below.

She then takes you through the details of how CODAx is applied to this design and how the various security risks are identified. The flow is quite easy to follow. The expertise that CODAx adds to all design flows is very clear. Any engineer can apply expert-level security analysis with this flow. There are many examples of how CODAx simplifies the process. The figure below shows an example of the impact that the new Asset Assist feature delivers.

Zahin shows many more security analysis scenarios to identify and fix weaknesses. She concludes with a deep dive on four example violations. By the end of this webinar, you will start to feel like a security expert.

To Learn More

Thanks to sophisticated AI, a growing security threat is coming. This webinar will show you how to be ready for it. If you’re involved in complex chip design, this is a must-attend event. You can reserve your spot for this important webinar event here. And that’s how Caspia shows you how to fix security flaws before it’s too late.