Vernetta Dorsey

Vernetta Dorsey is the Product Security Practices Enablement Engineer at Intel. She manages the Security Development Lifecycle and Privacy by Design requirements for Intel, as well as business unit enablement and other special projects. This focuses on protecting Intel products by encouraging and mandating the use of secure design and coding principles and privacy consideration across the Intel portfolio. Prior to joining Intel, Vernetta worked for Bank of America for eight years in several technology management positions focused on information security, software engineering and development and emergency preparedness. Vernetta started off her career as an Army officer, serving over nine years in technology management positions including telecommunications, information systems, and infrastructure protection. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Denver in 1996 and her M.B.A in Global Business from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012.

The 6 stages of a holistic hardware security development lifecycle

Vernetta Dorsey

November 16, 2020

Building security and privacy into product development is more critical today than ever before. First introduced through the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiative in the early 2000s, the well-known security development lifecycle (SDL) is a framework designed to do just that. It was originally devised to enhance software security, but an SDL process can and should be applied to all types of products to help root out security and privacy vulnerabilities, while establishing long-term resilience in the rapidly evolving threat landscape.

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The 6 stages of a holistic hardware security development lifecycle

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