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Technology · 2018 · English

Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines

by Andrew Regenscheid

About this book

Andrew Regenscheid sets out guidelines for protecting the firmware and data that allow a computing platform to start and operate. The focus is resilience against attacks that could corrupt essential components and leave a system unable to function.

The guide organizes its recommendations around protection, detection and recovery. It explains the roles of roots of trust, authenticated updates and recovery mechanisms, connecting these ideas to the hardware and firmware components on which the rest of a system depends.

The complete May 2018 publication is intended for manufacturers, suppliers, administrators and security professionals making design or procurement decisions. It retains the original technical requirements, diagrams, terminology and references.

Andrew Regenscheid. NIST,2018. https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-193. Courtesy of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Original notices and credits retained.