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by transpute 493 days ago
> After briefly skimming through their talk they mention they're a third party consultancy company making recommendations on safety for NVIDIA, so "Nvidia Security Team" take it how you will.

This is a marketing case study by the major Ada tools and training vendor, on years of engineering work done by their customer, Nvidia. It includes quotes from Nvidia employees and their blog references a Defcon video by the head of the Nvidia Offensive Security team, https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/222559-adacore-nv...

  Principal Software Engineer
  Manager, GPU Firmware Security 
  Senior Manager, GPU Software Security
  VP, Software Security

  At the conclusion of their initial POC at the end of 2018, NVIDIA had five developers trained in SPARK. By the second quarter of 2022, that number had grown to over fifty.. Several NVIDIA teams are now using SPARK for a wide range of applications that include image authentication and integrity checks for the overall GPU firmware image, BootROM and secure monitor firmware, and formally verified components of an isolation kernel for an embedded operating system.