Podcast EP375: How to Implement Extensive Security Verification Capability Today with Dr. Farimah Farahmandi
Daniel is joined by Dr. Farimah Farahmandi, co-founder and chief scientist for security verification at Caspia Technologies. Farimah is the Endowed Professor in Hardware Security and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida ECE. She is the founding director of the Silicon Design and Assurance Laboratory there and the director of the Florida Institute of Cybersecurity. Farimah has authored seven textbooks, over 120 journal and conference papers, and holds 12 patents. Her research focus is hardware security verification, fault-injection and side-channel attack analysis, information leakage, post-silicon validation and debugging.
Daniel explores the content and motivation behind a unique presentation Farimah gave at this year’s DAC Chips to Systems Conference. Entitled “Training Virtual Security Verification Engineers for System-on-Chip Security Assurance”, the presentation proposed a unique approach to building the required security verification organization to counter mounting hardware security threats.
Farimah explains that developing advanced hardware security verification skills takes years of practical experience beyond university training. A method is needed to build extensive security verification teams before enough trained engineers are available to staff them. Farimah describes an approach that blends human engineering skills with highly trained AI agents that can be mobilized with human guidance and an advanced orchestration layer to achieve the required security verification capability while additional engineers undergo training.
Farimah presents details on how this system works and describes the tools Caspia Technologies has available to deliver critical security verification capability.
You can learn more about Caspia’s agentic security verification capabilities here. There is also a new informative white paper available here:
Security Assurance for Modern Accelerated Compute.
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in these podcasts belong solely to the speaker, and not to the speaker’s employer, organization, committee or any other group or individual.
SEMICON West’s Autonomous Fab Vision Needs a Decision-Escalation Design