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Overview
This one-day workshop focuses on the risks and realities of hardware espionage and supply chain compromise. It is a hands-on environment where students will detect and analyze various forms of surreptitious hardware. Each section provides details of the threat, real-world examples, and recommendations for detection/mitigation.
Prerequisites
Joe Grand's Hardware Hacking Basics two-day training
Course Outline
A. Espionage Overview
B. Hardware Implants
- Hands-on exercise: Build a keystroke-injection hardware implant, experiment with various payloads
C. Covert Channels/Data Exfiltration
- Hands-on exercise: Discover multiple methods of covert channel on a custom circuit board, capture/decode exfiltrated data
D. Component-Level
- Hands-on exercise: Identify functional difference between a known-good and modified device, determine resulting effect/weakness, reverse engineer the modification
E. Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
- Hands-on exercise: Physical delayering of an intentionally-modified custom circuit board, identify differences in layout against known-good version, determine effect of modifications
Why choose QA
- Award-winning training, top NPS scores
- Nearly 300,000 learners in 2020
- Our training experts are industry leaders
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When will I receive my certificate?
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