While hardware may be a source of insecurity, such as with microchip vulnerabilities maliciously introduced during the manufacturing process, hardware-based or assisted computer security also offers an alternative to software-only computer security. Using devices and methods such as dongles, trusted platform modules, intrusion-aware cases, drive locks, disabling USB ports, and mobile-enabled access may be considered more secure due to the physical access (or sophisticated backdoor access) required in order to be compromised. Each of these is covered in more detail below. COUNT 4
QSN1 Microchips vulnerabilities are introduced when? ANS1 during the manufacturing process QSN2 What offers an alternative to soft-ware only computer security? ANS2 hardware-based or assisted computer security QSN3 What can hardware be a source of? ANS3 insecurity QSN4 What is required in order for hardware to be compromised? ANS4 physical access (or sophisticated backdoor access)