Malware-Proof Embedded Systems

Conventional measures do not sufficiently protect embedded systems against intruders and malware attacks of any kind. The main reason for this is that the system architectures are based on highly insecure and error-prone foundations. Whereas some time ago this shortcoming could still be partially coped with by swift counteraction, due to the fast data networks there are no reactive measures anymore that could compensate for the aggressors’ temporal advantage. Since computers employed for purposes of safety-related automation and control or in critical infrastructures are more and more connected to networks and are, thus, endangered by malware, new architectures for their hardware and software as presented here are necessary, which completely solve the security problems by their intrinsic properties.