Mike Borza

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Mike Borza is a member of the technical staff for Synopsys security IP. He has more than 20 years of experience in security system engineering, and safety critical engineering before that. He is a founder and CTO of Elliptic Technologies, which was recently acquired by Synopsys. Borza has been an active contributor to the Security Task Group of IEEE 802.1; was an editor of the 802.1AR Secure Device Identifier standard; and is one of the founding members of the prpl Foundation and co-chair of its Security Engineering Group. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.

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Dodging The Next Generation Of Car Thieves

By Mike Borza - 06 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 1

The complexity of vehicle electronics is growing and brings with it more opportunities for hackers to penetrate the car’s defenses. More connections bring in multiple network topologies, which may or may not be secure. As they are all intertwined and interconnected, any connection to get into the vehicle’s electronics is a potential point of attack for hackers. For example, jamming RFID sig... » read more

Building Smart Homes On A Secure Foundation

By Mike Borza - 17 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

News outlets recently covered the new paper, “Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications,” and its findings about the security vulnerabilities in common “smart home” applications. Originally published in the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the paper describes the operation of, and potential issues with, the programming framework in smart home devices on the marke... » read more