Security Threats Of Computer Architecture

Computer architecture is a victim to its own capacity, lending itself to a desire for a better, faster, and more optimized architecture. However, with this desire for a better architecture, there are threats inherent in the evolution. These threats steam from bugs in the architecture whether it due to oversight or malicious intent, compounding when external threats are exploiting architecture’s weaknesses. Computers have always been susceptible to security threats in history as well as present day. Security threats has caused computer architecture to change to insure the protection of instructions in memory, the restrictions on instruction execution, and memory management. Therefore, remedying for current and anticipating other security threats, evolution to computer architectures is a necessity.

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In the early days of automated computing it was in the form of mechanical, which eventually evolved to digital, which continues to evolve every day. Evolution based on the desire to make the current computer architecture smaller, faster, and better there is also another factor that plays a major role in the evolution that is security threats. Security threats come in different forms, such as a bug in memory instructions due to oversight or even malicious intent. Regardless of the vulnerability, there are areas that need constant improvement to help mitigate security threats. There areas that are pivotal factors; are protecting memory instructions by limiting either if memory is read-only or if it is also writable. Limiting and restricting the instructions being executed is another factor in mitigating security threats. Lastly, proper memory management for addressing proper defense in security threats to computer architecture. Advancements in current technology has to look at many facets of improvement in order to successfully