Vulnerability, Security and Privacy at the Edge of Computing

The steady rise of intelligence and autonomy over a scale of distributed, connected and smart components is heralding the era of Internet-of-Intelligence. Without adequate safeguards in place, such components can lead to terrible consequences. In this talk, I will discuss three topics - namely, vulnerability, design for security and privacy of such edge–computing scenarios. The vulnerability aspect will be demonstrated through multiple attacks that we conducted, using practical case studies on edge devices. The design for security perspective will be discussed, first, through system-level security-by-design methodologies; second, through efficient lightweight cryptographic accelerator designs and design automation flows; third, through automation of attack/prevention techniques. Finally, the privacy perspective will be presented through an innovative tunable compression technique, realized on top of a video/image-processing platform.