SecureIC

Elevator Pitch: SecureIC utilizes the groundbreaking TroLLoc scheme to offer a unique combination of logic locking and layout hardening, ensuring your IC designs are impenetrable by malicious modifications and piracy. With SecureIC, electronics manufacturers can focus on innovation without worrying about security breaches in their products.

Concept

Providing Integrated Circuit (IC) Security as a Service for Electronics Manufacturers

Objective

To protect the physical layouts of integrated circuits against unauthorized modifications, specifically hardware Trojans, by offering a combination of logic locking and layout hardening.

Solution

Using the TroLLoc scheme, SecureIC will offer services to electronics manufacturers to secure their IC designs from piracy and malicious modifications, integrating seamlessly into their existing design flows.

Revenue Model

Subscription-based model for continuous security updates and one-time fees for specific design protection.

Target Market

Electronics manufacturers and IC design companies, with an initial focus on those in critical sectors like defense, healthcare, and finance.

Expansion Plan

Expand services globally, focusing on markets with high growth in electronics manufacturing. Later, diversify into related areas such as secure supply chain management for electronics components.

Potential Challenges

Ensuring adaptability to rapidly evolving IC design processes, overcoming resistance from companies wary of third-party interventions in their design processes, and staying ahead of increasingly sophisticated attack methodologies.

Customer Problem

Protection against the piracy of IC intellectual property and prevention of hardware Trojans without significantly disrupting existing design and manufacturing processes.

Regulatory and Ethical Issues

Compliance with international cybersecurity standards and export controls, ensuring the privacy of clients’ proprietary designs.

Disruptiveness

Revolutionizes the security of integrated circuits by effectively preventing post-design tampering, setting a new standard for IC integrity.