Cyber Defense for Semiconductor Foundries: Safeguarding Digital Innovation

A cyber attack on a semiconductor fab can cause tens of millions of dollars in damages to the stakeholding organization in less than a day. The damages of disruption by malware or Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are difficult to overstate: far-reaching effects ripple out, afflicting every downstream link in the supply chain and in essence forcing global progress to run backwards. The introduction of a new set of comprehensive standards, as well as the gear for maintaining these standards, will be what provides wafer fabs with the security necessary to create the technologies of the future.