Hardware security and intellectual property protection have become critical research areas as the semiconductor industry increasingly relies on a globally distributed design and fabrication ecosystem.

Using IP as security is an attractive way of accessing finance for many companies. Alexandra Pygall and Mark Kramer explain the issues borrowers and lenders need to consider The value of IP has the ...

Intellectual property theft is a major concern for all businesses, but especially organizations in the defense-industrial base because their IP is vital to national security. The threat of foreign ...

Theodore Wood's job, at D.C.-based Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, is the discovery and protection of intellectual property in things like smart-grid security. From international cyber security ...

Opportunities in semiconductor IP include strategic IP selection, modular architectures, evolving licensing, supply chain ...

A new survey from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) paints a picture of corporate secrets walking out the door uninhibited. The survey, which was sponsored by information protection firm Reconnex, ...

The protection of intellectual property in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design is increasingly critical in an era where the global semiconductor supply chain is highly interconnected and ...

As U.S. manufacturers once again grapple with outsourcing production to foreign facilities, issues with intellectual property protection begin to arise. Intellectual properties provide companies with ...

A significant portion of electronic system vulnerabilities involves hardware. In 2015 the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE-MITRE) database recorded 6,488 vulnerabilities. A considerable ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That pretty much sums up the information security landscape for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the year ahead, according to the head of ...