Introducing PROBoter: A Platform for Automated PCB Security Analysis
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Summary
This article introduces PROBoter, a platform designed to automate the security analysis of embedded systems at the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) level. The platform aims to address the tedious and time-consuming manual processes currently used by embedded security experts for tasks like visual PCB inspection and reverse engineering of security-relevant nets. The article is the first in a four-part blog series that will cover the platform's capabilities for automating hardware security analysis, particularly useful when examining multiple hardware revisions of the same PCB.
Key quotes
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Many steps like visual PCB inspection and reverse engineering of security relevant nets, i.e. electrically connected components, is usually done manually by an embedded security expert.
Things get even worse when multiple hardware revisions of the same PCB must be examined.
To support analysts in this challenging process, we developed PROBoter - a platform for automated PCB analysis.
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