India, April 9 -- As threats move deeper into silicon, cybersecurity is evolving-from the hardware level. In today's industrial and edge-based environments, security is not installed; it's embedded.

Cyberattacks have gotten more sophisticated. The once-quietly working firmware is now a prime target. Why? It runs before the OS, it runs with no monitoring of activity, and when compromised, it allows very deep access to the device.

Traditional defenses don't stop firmware attacks at the firmware level. That's why new systems are designed with security that starts before the OS loads.

Security starts at boot time. The system is checking the cryptographic signatures of the firmware before it can run. This is based on trusted platform module...