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Defense in Depth: 10 Practical Lessons

A single bad memory access was enough to permanently lock an entire system based on a popular SoC. Here are ten practical lessons from investigating and mitigating that failure. The previous two...

Embedded Post-Quantum Security Starts Now

Think quantum computing is the next decade’s threat? Think again. If your hardware ships this year, it’s already a today problem. It’s easy to dismiss Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) as a...

Defense in Depth in Practice: Prevent, Contain, Recover

Finding a hardware weakness is only the first step. The more useful question is what we can do to prevent it, contain it, or recover when prevention fails. The previous article described a...

De l’âne Lolo à l’IA générative : le piège du résultat

En 1910, un âne a peint une toile exposée au Salon des Indépendants. Aujourd’hui, cette histoire me revient chaque fois qu’un utilisateur d’IA pense avoir remplacé des décennies...

Defense in Depth, When the Unexpected Happens

Cybersecurity usually starts at the periphery by blocking attack vectors. But what if the failure comes from the inside? An attacker needs both an exploitable weakness and a way to reach it...

Where Did Embedded Engineering Go?

Open almost any embedded systems news feed today and one topic dominates everything: generative AI. Where did the rest of engineering go? Generative AI: people promote it, criticize it, publish...

Technical Debt: Are We Arguing About the Problem or the Name?

Recently, I have witnessed several surprisingly heated discussions about technical debt. Interestingly, the disagreement was rarely about how to reduce it, how much it costs, or how it affects...

Embedded Cartography: Architecture Beats Optimization

This second article continues a two-part story inspired by a real industrial project carried out for a railway OEM. The first article described how a classical OpenStreetMap rendering architecture was...

The Market Clock Doesn’t Care About Your Delay

A one-month delay on a product development project is one more month of engineering costs and burn rate, right? Wrong. It is far more expensive than that. Embedded products live within two hard...