Date Published: April 15, 2026
Author(s)
Sanjay (Jay) Rekhi (NIST), Guru Prasadh Venkataramani (NIST)
This paper describes design mechanisms that reconfigure component firmware as a network of forensic units that passively observe bus traffic to extract and share forensic data beyond typical communication. By employing consensus-building algorithms among these distributed units, the augmented firmware can collaboratively detect compromised nodes within a zero trust architecture to enable future system defense solutions.
This paper describes design mechanisms that reconfigure component firmware as a network of forensic units that passively observe bus traffic to extract and share forensic data beyond typical communication. By employing consensus-building algorithms among these distributed units, the augmented...
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This paper describes design mechanisms that reconfigure component firmware as a network of forensic units that passively observe bus traffic to extract and share forensic data beyond typical communication. By employing consensus-building algorithms among these distributed units, the augmented firmware can collaboratively detect compromised nodes within a zero trust architecture to enable future system defense solutions.
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Keywords
Attack detection; bus-based computing systems; distributed hardware systems; firmware; security forensics; system security monitoring
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