Hackers Are Targeting Your Firmware. Are You Ready? – John Loucaides – ESW #223
83% of businesses have experienced at least one firmware attack in the past two years - and yet most organizations lack visibility into this attack surface. We'll discuss why hackers are increasingly targeting firmware and what enterprises need to do to detect and prevent these attacks.
Segment Resources: Assessing Enterprise Firmware Security Risk in 2021 - https://eclypsium.com/2021/01/14/assessing-enterprise-firmware-security-risk-in-2021/
https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec
The Top 5 Firmware Attack Vectors - https://eclypsium.com/2018/12/28/the-top-5-firmware-and-hardware-attack-vectors/
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John has extensive history in hardware and firmware threats from experience at Intel and the United States government. At Intel he served as the Director of Advanced Threat Research, Platform Armoring and Resiliency, PSIRT, and was a CHIPSEC maintainer. Prior to this, he was Technical Team Lead for Specialized Platforms for the US government.