From consumer devices such as smartphones,
tablets or set-top boxes to infrastructure
elements such as base stations for
the wireless cellular network or supervisory
control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems,
security is an important consideration
in not only preventing theft but also, in some
cases, catastrophic failures. In an increasingly
connected world, where even cars will
soon be connected to each other and to the
communications infrastructure, new security
concerns that were nonexistent just a
few years ago are coming to the forefront.
With the stakes as high as ever, hackers and
rogue programmers have every incentive to
go to painstaking depths to cause maximum
impact and damage. Embedded systems will
be the focus of next-generation attack vectors;
as a result, a flexible, cost-effective and
programmable security solution is needed to
defend against these increasing attacks.