Hardware Security

A Hands-on Learning Approach

2nd Edition - August 20, 2026
Latest edition
Authors: Swarup Bhunia, Mark Tehranipoor
Language: English

Hardware Security: A Hands On Learning Approach, Second Edition provides a broad, comprehensive, and practical overview of hardware security that encompasses all levels of the el… Read more

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Description

Hardware Security: A Hands On Learning Approach, Second Edition provides a broad, comprehensive, and practical overview of hardware security that encompasses all levels of the electronic hardware infrastructure. The book covers basic concepts like advanced attack techniques and countermeasures that are illustrated through theory, case studies, and well designed, hands on laboratory exercises for each key concept. The book is ideal as a textbook for upper level undergraduate students studying computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering, but is also a handy reference for graduate students, researchers and industry professionals.

For academic courses, the book contains a robust suite of teaching ancillaries. Users of the book can access schematic, layout and design files for a printed circuit board for hardware hacking (i.e., the HaHa board), a suite of videos that demonstrate different hardware vulnerabilities, hardware attacks and countermeasures, and a detailed description and user manual for companion materials.

Key features

Provides a thorough overview of computer hardware, including the fundamentals of computer systems and the implications of security risks
Includes discussion of the liability, safety, and privacy implications of hardware and software security and interaction
Gives insights on a wide range of security, trust issues, emerging attacks, protection mechanisms in the electronic hardware lifecycle, from design, fabrication, test, and distribution straight through to supply chain and deployment
Presents a full range of instructor and student support materials that can be found on the authors’ own website: http://hwsecuritybook.org

Readership

Upper level engineering undergraduate students with majors in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering / Navstem estimates the current overall US course market in computer security at 71,200 students per year, an increase of 69% since the first edition was proposed in 2016 Reference content for graduate students, researchers and industry professionals

1. Introduction to Hardware Security

Part I: Electronic Hardware (ASIC, FPGA, PCBs)

2. Background on Electronic Hardware

3. System on Chip (S0C) Design and Test

4. Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) Design and Test

Part II: HARDWARE ATTACKS: ANALYSIS, EXAMPLES & THREAT MODELS

5. Hardware Trojan Horse

6. Hardware Supply Chain Issues

7. Hardware IP Piracy and IP Reverse Engineering

8. Side Channel Attacks (SCA)

9. Scan based Attacks, JTAG Hacks and DMA Attacks

10. IC Microprobing Attacks and IC Reverse Engineering

11. Attacks on PCB – Snooping, Counterfeiting, Reverse Engineering and Piracy, Physical Attacks

Part III: COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST HARDWARE ATTACKS

12. Hardware Security Primitives

13. Design for Security (DfS) and Security/Trust Validation for Integrated Circuits

14. Hardware Obfuscation

15. PCB Integrity Validation and Authentication

Part IV: EMERGING TRENDS IN HARDWARE ATTACKS AND PROTECTIONS

16. Joint Hardware Software Attacks and Countermeasures

17. Summary and Future Directions

Product details

Edition: 2
Latest edition
Published: August 20, 2026
Language: English

About the authors

Swarup Bhunia

Swarup Bhunia is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He has more than ten years of research and development experience with over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and premier conferences. His research interests include hardware security and trust, adaptive nanocomputing and novel test methodologies. Dr. Bhunia received the IBM Faculty Award (2013), National Science Foundation career development award (2011), Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2009), and SRC technical excellence award (2005), and several best paper awards/nominations. He has been serving as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on CAD, IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies, and Journal of Low Power Electronics; served as guest editor of IEEE Design & Test of Computers (2010, 2013) and IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (2014). He is a senior member of IEEE.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Mark Tehranipoor

Mark Tehranipoor is the Intel Charles E. Young Professor in Cybersecurity at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Florida. Prof. Tehranipoor has published over 300 journal articles and refereed conference papers and has given more than 150 invited talks and keynote addresses since 2006. In addition, he has published six books and ten book chapters. His projects are sponsored by both industry (Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Texas Instruments, Freescale Comcast, Honeywell, LSI, Mentor Graphics, Juniper, R3Logic, Cisco, Qualcomm, MediaTeck, etc.) and the US Government (NSF, ARO, MDA, DOD, AFOSR, DOE, etc.). Prior to joining the University of Florida, Dr. Tehranipoor served as the founding director of the Center for Hardware Assurance, Security, and Engineering (CHASE) and the Comcast Center of Excellence in Security Innovation (CSI) at the University of Connecticut. Prof. Tehranipoor is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, and Member of ACM and ACM SIGDA. He is also a member of Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).