Delivering On Our Security Goals

Security validation aims to ensure that our products adhere to the goals we set, with validation teams focused on confirming that designs are functionally correct. 

Security validation teams work with the pre-silicon functional validation teams, so that their testing strategies consider relevant scenarios. Additionally, we want product updates designed to improve security, to be thoroughly validated. As we learn new techniques that researchers are creating to break our security models, we adjust our testing strategies and create tools and methodologies, so that future generations of products are more secure than the last.

Proof-of-Concept Code

Developing proof-of-concept code to run on a post-silicon debug platform is useful for stressing parts of the microarchitecture in a real-world environment. We test our mitigations to reported vulnerabilities using techniques learned from the academic community, and we build on this foundation to verify that our patches are effective and future generations of products are more secure.