The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor

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News Source : The Next Web

News Summary

  • IBM finds 1 in 4 malicious breaches are now AI-enabled at $6M average cost.
  • Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent years protecting.
  • Dover Microsystems’ CoreGuard adds a silicon-level enforcement layer that watches every instruction against programmable micropolicies.
  • If an instruction violates one of those rules, CoreGuard is designed to prevent its execution and alert the surrounding system.
  • The technology’s relevance will grow as processors become responsible for increasingly consequential decisions.
TL;DR Processors still execute instructions with no understanding of whether they are legitimate.

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