Busting the Myths of Hardware Based Security

guest · Aug 3, 2022

Many experts often overlook hardware based security and its vital importance in establishing a secure workspace
August 3, 2022

When it comes to cybersecurity, everyone likes to talk about software and the dangers that it poses. However, people often overlook hardware-based security and its vital importance in establishing a secure workspace. This is attributed to a general lack of knowledge when it comes to hardware security and how it works. So, it’s time to bust some myths that you might think are true when it comes to hardware security.
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Myth #1: We never hear about hardware-based attacks, they don’t exist!
Just because you don’t hear about the problem frequently, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.

When an enterprise gets breached, the natural assumption is that it was due to a software vulnerability or phishing scam. Such misunderstanding, coupled with a lack of resources to detect a hardware attack tool, results in the attack method getting misconstrued.
Myth #2: We have security measures in place, and all our employees use VPNs – we are protected!
Yes, your security measures like NAC, IDS/IDP, firewalls and VPNs definitely provide some level of protection. However, malicious actors are continually evolving and finding new attack methods, which means exploiting blind spots, one of which is the hardware domain.

If you are unable to determine all your assets’ hardware information within 10 seconds, you are, in fact, not protected.
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Myth #3: “We don’t use USBs, so why should it concern us”
That’s a line we’ve heard many times before, but here’s the thing: you do, and it should!

Sure, your organization might not use flash drives and there might be some authorization capabilities in EPS/EDR solutions that block phones, keyboards and mice with certain VID/PIDs. That’s great, but what about the keyboards employees use to type? And the mice they use to navigate? Correct, those are USBs.
Myth #4: Why would anyone want to hack us; we aren’t an interesting target?
That’s where you’re wrong. In today’s day and age, almost anything that has data is of value and there is someone out there who wants to access it, no matter how mundane it could be.

Your company, however, is a prime target – there’s data and it’s accessible.
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In short, every enterprise is a target for malicious actors; it can happen to anyone for any number of reasons. The important thing to remember is that you can prepare and build your company’s resistance to these attacks by gaining visibility on the Physical Layer through hardware-based security.
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