Industry Resources

Resources and industry presentations focused on firmware and platform security.

Resources

• Embedded Computing Design
  • June 2022: Understanding UEFI Firmware Update and Its Vital Role in Keeping Computing Systems Secure
• Chips & Salsa Podcast: Episode 5
  • How Secure Boot helps protect against bootkits used in malware
• Arm/Linaro Roundtable at the Fall 2018 UEFI Plugfest
  • GIGABYTE Positions in ARM Server Market - Leading Pioneer
  • Server Firmware SIG
  • ServerReady and Open Standards Accelerating Delivery
• October 2018: How to Become a UEFI Security Superhero
• July 2018 Webinar
  • UEFI Firmware Security 101 Webinar
• UDK2018
  • April 2018: UDK2018 Release Wiki Page
  • April 2018: UDK2018 key features and changes
• Security Weekly Podcasts
  • March 2018: Dick Wilkins, Phoenix Technologies - Paul's Security Weekly #551
  • March 2018: Stefano Righi, UEFI - Paul's Security Weekly #550
• March 2018: Firmware security for IoT devices, Dick Wilkins (Phoenix), Embedded Computing Design
• Firmware Security
  • July 2017: UEFI Firmware Security Concerns and Best Practices (Phoenix)
  • February 2017: Signed UEFI Firmware Updates in EDK II (Intel)
  • February 2016: Securing Firmware is Crucial for IoT (Intel)
    • Motherboard interview: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/02/06/protecting-firmware-iot
• UEFI Capsule Updates
  • June 2015: Better Firmware Updates in Linux* Using UEFI Capsules (Intel)
  • Repository for Open Source capsule updates (Microsoft)
    • https://github.com/Microsoft/MS_UEFI/tree/share/MsCapsuleSupport
    • https://github.com/Microsoft/MS_UEFI/tree/share/MsCapsuleSupport/MsCapsuleUpdatePkg

Industry Presentations

• BSides 2017, What you don’t know about firmware might get you 0wn3d, Brian Richardson
• Black Hat, Firmware is the new Black—Analyzing Past 3 years of BIOS/UEFI Vulnerabilities, Bruce Monroe, Rodrigo Rubira Branco and Vincent Zimmer
• Linux Plumbers Conference,  The State of UEFI Technology, Harry Hsiung