DARPA announced the deployment of the ASOM technology which will be used to inspect critical equipment to detect counterfeit microelectronics.
The presence of counterfeit microelectronics in cybersecurity equipment is considered a critical problem for the US Government, in military sector the hardware qualification has assumed a crucial importance for national cyber security strategy.The US DARPA supports the development of the Integrity and Reliability of Integrated Circuits (IRIS) program to prevent the diffusion of counterfeit microelectronics in US military systems. The IRIS program started in to improve hardware qualification in the military industry, the scope is the identification of any anomaly in the IC present in critical equipment.
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