Industry Resources

Resources and industry presentations focused on firmware and platform security.

Resources

Embedded Computing Design
- June 2022: Understanding UEFI Firmware Update and Its Vital Role in Keeping Computing Systems Secure
Chips & Salsa Podcast: Episode 5
- How Secure Boot helps protect against bootkits used in malware
Arm/Linaro Roundtable at the Fall 2018 UEFI Plugfest
October 2018: How to Become a UEFI Security Superhero
July 2018 Webinar
- UEFI Firmware Security 101 Webinar
UDK2018
- April 2018: UDK2018 Release Wiki Page
- April 2018: UDK2018 key features and changes
Security Weekly Podcasts
- March 2018: Dick Wilkins, Phoenix Technologies - Paul's Security Weekly #551
- March 2018: Stefano Righi, UEFI - Paul's Security Weekly #550
March 2018: Firmware security for IoT devices, Dick Wilkins (Phoenix), Embedded Computing Design
Firmware Security
- July 2017: UEFI Firmware Security Concerns and Best Practices (Phoenix)
- February 2017: Signed UEFI Firmware Updates in EDK II (Intel)
- February 2016: Securing Firmware is Crucial for IoT (Intel)
  - Motherboard interview: https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/02/06/protecting-firmware-iot
UEFI Capsule Updates
- June 2015: Better Firmware Updates in Linux* Using UEFI Capsules (Intel)
- Repository for Open Source capsule updates (Microsoft)
  - https://github.com/Microsoft/MS_UEFI/tree/share/MsCapsuleSupport
  - https://github.com/Microsoft/MS_UEFI/tree/share/MsCapsuleSupport/MsCapsuleUpdatePkg

Industry Presentations

BSides 2017, What you don’t know about firmware might get you 0wn3d, Brian Richardson
Black Hat, Firmware is the new Black—Analyzing Past 3 years of BIOS/UEFI Vulnerabilities, Bruce Monroe, Rodrigo Rubira Branco and Vincent Zimmer
Linux Plumbers Conference, The State of UEFI Technology, Harry Hsiung