Research Article

TEE-Watchdog: Mitigating Unauthorized Activities within Trusted Execution Environments in ARM-Based Low-Power IoT Devices

Table 3

A summary of TEE-Watchdog’s security goals.

Security goalDescription

G1Secure world applications cannot modify TEE-Watchdog components and structures.
G2Normal world applications and their trusted code cannot interrupt TEE-Watchdog operations or processes that make TEE-Watchdog functional.
G3Malicious applications are prevented from depleting TEE-Watchdog resources.