Side-Channel Attack is a Real Threat

Abstract

One of the key tasks of the defense industry of our time is information security, of which human and machine dependencies are extremely diverse. The IT systems of companies or government agencies require continuous supervision, development and audits, which also extend to the human resource. One of the reasons for this is that the market demand for mobile and other entertainment electronic devices subvert the industrial balance of power years before the emergence of the coronavirus, starting from the production of electronic components, through telecommunication protocols and artificial intelligence to development methodologies. This led to a continuous transformation of the industry, which entailed the shortening of the development time of electronic devices. As a result, high-quality hardware, software and methodological tools became widely available to the civilian population, which raised a phenomenon that had been treated as a myth to a real vulnerability. In my work, I present a segment of emission security, the leakage of passive electromagnetic information, and the growing trend and causes of the threat. The purpose of this publication is to illustrate through my own R&D, that with the help of COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) devices, software and modern model-based development practices that are accessible and affordable to the civilian population, the observation techniques used exclusively by professional services in the 1950s, has now become a real threat.