Hardwear.io Netherlands 2025 to Spotlight Breakthrough Research and Hands-On Training in Hardware Security

Security Researchers, Including Award-Winner Mathé Hertogh, Will Demonstrate How Global Cyber Resilience Begins at the Hardware Layer

Princeton, NJ – Hardwear.io Security Trainings and Conference Netherlands 2025, the premier global forum dedicated to advancing hardware and embedded security, will return for its 11th edition from November 17-21, bringing together the world’s top security researchers, engineers and industry leaders for an immersive week of cutting-edge discovery and collaboration.

This year’s event features three days of specialized technical trainings followed by two days of conference sessions and live demonstrations, attracting participation from global organizations across industries including automotive, healthcare, semiconductors, IoT, industrial control and defense.

“Hardware security is where true resilience begins,” said Antriksh Shah, founder of Hardwear.io. “Our mission is to empower the engineers and researchers who find and fix vulnerabilities before they become global risks. They’re the ones shaping trust in the digital age.”

Advancing Global Security From the Silicon Up

Hardwear.io Netherlands 2025 delivers a full week of activity designed to push the boundaries of hardware security research and application, including:

• Hands-on, in-depth trainings led by experts in hardware reverse engineering, side-channel analysis and fault injection;
• Technical talks and keynotes from industry leaders uncovering vulnerabilities in real systems;
• Competitive Capture the Flag challenges and the HardPwn contest, testing creativity and skill;
• Networking sessions connecting researchers, security teams and product developers across sectors.

The conference’s unique mix of academic depth and real-world applicability has made it a trusted global platform where new research influences product design, standards and industry-wide security practices.

Deep Technical Training: From Theory to Practice

Running from November 17-19, the training program remains a cornerstone of Hardwear.io. Each session combines advanced instruction with immersive lab exercises to ensure participants walk away with applicable skills that translate directly to the field.

Among this year’s standout trainings:

• Monolith Pinout Discovery – Enable Data Recovery From SD Cards: Michal Paczkowski (Intermediate/Basic)
• LoRaPWN: From Custom/Industrial to Drone Hacking: Sébastien Dudek (Advanced)
• Connected Car Hacking: Philippe Azalbert (Intermediate/Advanced)
• Baseband Reverse Engineering and Fuzzing: Marius Muench and Tobias Scharnowski (Intermediate/Advanced)
• FPGA Security and Reverse Engineering: Julian Speith, René Walendy and Simon Klix (Basic/Intermediate)
• Integrated Circuits Reverse Engineering: ROM Is Your Primary Target: Olivier Thomas (Intermediate)
• Mastering UEFI Secure Boot and Intel Root of Trust Technologies: Piotr Król (Advanced/Intermediate)
• Bluetooth Low Energy – Full Stack Attack: Xeno Kovah and Veronica (Basic)
• Unveiling the Secrets of AI Implementations Using Side-Channel Analysis: Lejla Batina, Łukasz Chmielewski and Zhuoran Liu (Intermediate)
• The Art of Fault Injection: Advanced Techniques and Attacks: Niek Timmers (Intermediate/Advanced)
• BootPwn: Breaking Secure Boot by Experience: Cristofaro Mune (Intermediate)
• Hands-On TrustZone TEE Security: Marcel Busch (Intermediate/Advanced)
• Hands-On Car Hacking: Willem Melching (Intermediate/Advanced)
• Practical Hardware Hacking Basics + Bonus Day! Joe Grand (Basic)

These trainings reflect the diversity and depth of topics at the intersection of hardware, firmware and embedded system security, offering a rare opportunity for direct engagement with the field’s leading practitioners.

Research That Drives Real-World Impact

At the conference, on November 20-21, speakers will present active research on vulnerabilities in production environments, ensuring discussions remain practical and forward-looking.

Among the headline speakers is researcher Mathé Hertogh, whose pioneering work on transient execution vulnerabilities revealed how modern processors could be exploited to extract sensitive data from cloud environments. His collaboration with Google, AWS and VU Amsterdam’s Professor Herbert Bos drew global attention and earned a $151,000 Google bug bounty.

At Hardwear.io, Hertogh will deliver a live demonstration showing how such vulnerabilities operate in practice and why cross-industry collaboration is essential to mitigating them.

“I’m super excited to present our highly advanced cloud attack, whose impact can – and already did – motivate industry to improve their microarchitectural security,” Hertogh said.

All researchers presenting at Hardwear.io are required to follow a strict responsible vulnerability disclosure code of conduct, ensuring that every discovery is shared ethically and contributes constructively to the broader security ecosystem.

Why This Event Matters for the Industry

Hardwear.io serves as a convergence point for hardware engineers, security architects, red teamers, researchers and policymakers, all focused on securing the physical foundations of digital systems.

For sponsors and partners, it provides a direct channel to:

• Engage with highly technical audiences exploring hardware and embedded vulnerabilities;
• Demonstrate new tools, technologies and platforms in real-use environments;
• Align with the most forward-thinking practitioners advancing global cybersecurity.

“Hardwear.io is built around people who don’t just theorize about threats, they demonstrate them,” Shah added. “Our platform ensures their discoveries reach engineers, CISOs and policymakers who can take action.”

Through its collaborative environment and mix of training, research and competition, Hardwear.io continues to prove that hardware security is not a niche domain but a fundamental pillar of global resilience.

To learn more or register for Hardwear.io Netherlands 2025, visit www.hardwear.io/netherlands-2025.

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About Hardwear.io

Hardwear.io is one of the only embedded security reverse engineering conferences and training platforms in the world. Hardwear.io attracts audiences that are interested in niche topics such as silicon reverse engineering, side channel and fault injection attacks, decapping chips, breaking secure boot, firmware security, rowhammer, IC ROM extraction across industries like automotive, healthcare, media and entertainment, IoT OEMs, government and specialized certification labs. While the conference is community-driven with a passion to “secure your hardware,” it hosts annual editions across the United States and Europe.

About ISMG

Information Security Media Group (ISMG) is the world’s largest media organization devoted solely to cybersecurity, information technology, artificial intelligence and operational technology. Each of our 38 media properties provides education, research and news that is specifically tailored to key vertical sectors including banking, healthcare and the public sector; geographies from North America to Southeast Asia; and topics such as data breach prevention, cyber risk assessment, OT security, AI and fraud. Our annual global summit series connects senior security professionals with industry thought leaders to find actionable solutions for pressing cybersecurity challenges.