From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 4 Secure Software Implementation
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Processor microarchitecture security
From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 4 Secure Software Implementation
Processor microarchitecture security
- [Instructor] In addition to securing an app's code and infrastructure, you can extend your security efforts all the way down to the CPU. In order to do that, though, you need to know a little bit about processor microarchitecture security extensions. Say that again. Processor microarchitecture security extensions. That's quite a mouthful, isn't it? Let's break it down and make it a little easier to digest. A computer's processor includes an instruction set that tells the processor how to interact with the computer's hardware. This instruction set varies depending on who manufactured the processor. In addition to these basic instructions, manufacturers have added some specific codes to protect those CPUs from hardware based attacks. We call those codes security extensions. It will probably come as no surprise that both Intel and AMD have added security extensions to their processors. Software guard extensions, or SGX,…
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