Book review: Engineering Secure Devices
Dominik Merli’s Engineering Secure Devices uses embedded security to teach broader lessons about system integrity, device identity, and engineering trade-offs. Its constrained systems make trust boundaries especially clear, but its mental models also apply to containerized applications and cloud runtimes.
The book’s treatment of secure boot, firmware updates, cryptographic implementation, and hardware-anchored identity makes it a valuable addition for practitioners interested in how integrity is engineered from the ground up.