Sustainable Hardware Security (SUSHI’26),
co-located with ICCAD’26
SUSHI@NIST: Rolling Next-Generation Secure Hardware into Standards
Hardware security is vital to national defense, economic resilience, and emerging technologies amid geopolitical uncertainty and semiconductor disruptions. Modern systems face escalating hardware-level threats that bypass conventional protections, endangering critical infrastructure, privacy, and performance.
The 2026 SUSHI@NIST Workshop convenes leaders across sectors to build scalable, sustainable, and mission-aligned solutions. Key themes include threat mitigation, supply chain assurance, AI-integrated system protection, and firmware resilience. The workshop will also launch a “Semiconductor Development Life Cycle Security Framework”, shaping national strategy and guiding trusted microelectronics design, deployment, and adoption. Stakeholder engagement is essential to secure our semiconductor future.
For More Information: Click the “Website” button to the right to go to the main NIST website for details including registration and agenda for this workshop.
Please note that after the workshop is completed, the presentations and other relevant materials will be available on the current page. LEARN MORE
SUSHI’24: co-located with ICCAD Conference
The desire for digital sovereignty, exacerbated by global semiconductor shortages and geopolitical interests, has led to numerous worldwide initiatives to strengthen semiconductor technology and manufacturing on national and regional scales. Consequently, the pivotal role of hardware security and trustworthiness in computing systems and supply chains has become paramount.
Hardware security is foundational to the integrity of computing systems. Insecure hardware compromises critical system functionality and poses significant risks to society.
Yet, in recent years, we’ve witnessed a rise in hardware design and implementation vulnerabilities within this evolving landscape. When exploited by unprivileged software, these vulnerabilities can expose sensitive data or compromise entire computing systems. This emerging threat paradigm challenges decades of research in system security, disrupting traditional models that primarily focus on software vulnerabilities and undermining assumptions about hardware trustworthiness. LEARN MORE
SUSHI’23: Sustainable Hardware Security
The desire for digital sovereignty, recent global semiconductor shortages and geopolitical interests are driving forces behind various worldwide initiatives to strengthen semiconductor technology and manufacturing on a national and regional basis. In this context, hardware security will play a vital role since hardware is at the heart of all computing systems, and insecure hardware will put critical systems and consequently, our society at risk.
However, in recent years, we are observing the discovery of a growing number of hardware design and implementation vulnerabilities that could be exploited by unprivileged software, leading to potential exposure of sensitive data or compromise of whole computing systems. This new attack paradigm casts a long shadow on decades of research on system security and disrupts the traditional threat models that have mainly focused on software-only vulnerabilities and often assume that the underlying hardware is behaving correctly and is trustworthy. Unfortunately, existing solutions are often ad-hoc, limited, inefficient, and address only specific problems. LEARN MORE
SUSHI’22: Co-located with ICCAD’22, San Diego, Sustainable Hardware Security
The main goal of this workshop is to bring together international researchers and experts from academia, industry, and government to exchange knowledge and explore new ideas and research directions for tackling the challenges related but not limited to security-by-design for hardware, scalable assurance methodologies for hardware security and resilience, and security-aware electronic design automation that pave the way for establishing sustainable security for computing platforms. LEARN MORE