UEFI News and Commentary  Friday, October 03, 2014  Security to
Eclipse User Features as Top 2015 Firmware Story  I stepped out
on a limb this year and made a prediction. Predictions are
notoriously fraught with peril and I am usually off-base or
overly optimistic in mine. Nonetheless, as CTO of Insyde
Software, I guess its also an unenviable part of my job. So here
it goes: 'security' will eclipse 'lost my password', 'can't
flash my BIOS' and 'overclocking' as the top firmware story in
2015. For each of the previous hot firmware topics, the focus
was on the user doing something correctly or incorrectly. The
assumption was: if you don't do something dumb, your system will
be ok.  Now, with security: even if the user doesn't do
something dumb, it is possible that the system is not ok.  The
OEMs (and firmware vendors) are now find themselves in the hot
seat. Recent Black Hat presentations have increasingly focused
on the vulnerabilities to be found in open source and closed
source firmware implementations. Sinc