Trust and Security Terms and Acronyms for Hardware Engineers

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0-9

6MS

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A

AES

Asset

Assurance

AT

Attack

Attack surface

Attack vector

Attacker

Auto-ISAC

Availability

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B

Backdoor

Black hat

Blue team

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C

CAPEC

CC

Channel

CIA

Concern

Confidentiality

Counterfeit

Covert channel

CVE

CVSS

CWE

CWSS

Cyber- (prefix)

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D

DDoS

DoS

DPA

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E

EAL

ECC

EVITA

Exploit

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F

Fault injection

FIPS

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H

Hashing

HRoT

HSM

HT

HTA

HTH

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I

I&A

Integrity

IPSA

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K

Key

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L

Leakage

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M

Malicious function

Malicious logic

Memory protection

MITM

MITRE

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N

NIST

NVD

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P

Penetration testing

Privilege escalation

Privilege level

PUF

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R

Red team

Risk

RNG

Root of trust

RoT

RSA

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S

Secret

Secure enclave

Security

Security mechanism

Security policy

SHA

SHE

Side channel

SOF

SPA

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T

Tag/Tagging

Tampering

TCG

TEE

Threat

Threat modeling

TPM

Transient execution attack

TRNG

Trojan (Horse)

Trojan payload

Trojan trigger

Trust

Trust anchor

Trustworthiness

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V

Vulnerability

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W

Weakness

White hat

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Z

Zero-day attack