The 2025 MIHW is a practical resource for a wide range of stakeholders in the broader semiconductor community.
Security Architects & Designers
- Raise internal awareness of potential security weaknesses.
- Prioritize mitigations and resources to address the most important weaknesses.
Hardware Consumers
- Raise internal awareness of potential security weaknesses.
- Prioritize mitigations and resources to address the most important weaknesses.
Design Teams
- Develop more structured and ordered review checklists based on the most important weaknesses.
Security Researchers
- Provide insights into weaknesses that require investigation and mitigation strategies.
Test Engineers
- Better able to focus testing efforts that address the most important weaknesses.
- Identify weaknesses in new hardware designs.
EDA Tool Vendors
- Guide automated tool support to identify weaknesses that are deemed most important for the industry.
Educators
- Structure course material and research on the weaknesses that are most important.
