Engine active · 200+ standards indexed · Updated weekly

Cyber compliance
intelligence for
silicon & embedded

An AI agent that automatically maps every applicable cyber standard to your chip design — identifies gaps, scores compliance, and generates a phased remediation roadmap. From silicon to certification.

200+
Standards
94%
Detection rate
72h
Full analysis
12
Domains
nextsentra-ai :: analysis-engine v3.1
$ sg analyze --target "Cortex-M55 IoT SoC" --sector industrial
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[ 01 ] STANDARDS PERIMETER MAPPING
IEC 62443-4-2 — applicable / SL2 target
ETSI EN 303 645 — applicable
PSA Certified L2 — recommended
EU CRA Art.13 — upcoming (2027)
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[ 02 ] DESIGN GAP ANALYSIS — 52 reqs
Secure Boot (ROM → BL1 → BL2) — OK
JTAG lockdown — GAP (§CR7.3)
Secure key storage / TrustZone — GAP
OTA auth + rollback prevention — partial
HW-TRNG 256-bit entropy — OK
────────────────────────────────
[ 03 ] ROADMAP GENERATED
Score: 68% · 2 critical · 4 phases · ETA 18w
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IEC 62443·Industrial Security
ISO/SAE 21434·Automotive
NIST SP 800-193·Platform Firmware
PSA Certified·IoT L1–L3
ETSI EN 303 645·Consumer IoT
DO-326A·Avionics
Common Criteria·EAL1–7
FIPS 140-3·Cryptographic
IEC 61508·Functional Safety
UNECE WP.29 R155·Vehicle
EU Cyber Resilience Act·2027
SESIP·Security Evaluation
IEC 62443·Industrial Security
ISO/SAE 21434·Automotive
NIST SP 800-193·Platform Firmware
PSA Certified·IoT L1–L3
ETSI EN 303 645·Consumer IoT
DO-326A·Avionics
Common Criteria·EAL1–7
FIPS 140-3·Cryptographic
IEC 61508·Functional Safety
UNECE WP.29 R155·Vehicle
EU Cyber Resilience Act·2027
SESIP·Security Evaluation
How it works

Five automated steps — from design to roadmap

01

Design ingestion

Upload schematics, datasheets, architecture docs. PDF, DOCX, XLSX, netlist supported.

02

Standards mapping

AI identifies domain, market, and applicable regulatory perimeter across 200+ standards.

03

Requirements extraction

Agent maps every applicable requirement to your specific design parameters and components.

04

Gap & compliance analysis

Automated comparison of your design vs. requirements. Severity scoring. Evidence tagging.

05

Compliance roadmap

Prioritised plan, phased timeline, effort estimates — ready for your engineering team.

Capabilities

Built for hardware security engineers

01 / 06
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Multi-standard AI agent

A fine-tuned LLM agent trained on the complete corpus of hardware security standards — continuously updated as new versions are published.

LLM fine-tunedRAG
02 / 06
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Design-aware analysis

Understands hardware concepts: trust zones, secure enclaves, debug access ports, supply chain attestation, firmware update paths.

RTL-awareSoC/MCU
03 / 06
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Gap scoring & evidence

Each gap is scored by severity, mapped to the standard clause, and linked to the specific design element causing the non-conformance.

CVSS-alignedAuditable
04 / 06
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Phased roadmap generation

Automatically generates a remediation roadmap with phase breakdown, engineering effort, dependency graph, and certification milestone tracking.

Gantt-readyJIRA export
05 / 06
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Continuous monitoring

Re-analyse automatically when your design changes or a standard is updated. Track compliance drift across development iterations.

CI/CD hooksWebhooks
06 / 06
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Audit-ready reporting

Generate certification-ready reports (Common Criteria ST, IEC 62443 Security Level evidence, PSA RoT documentation) with a single click.

ISO-alignedPDF / DOCX
Example output

Gap analysis — live report preview

ARM Cortex-M55 industrial IoT SoC analysed against IEC 62443-4-2 and PSA Certified L2. 52 requirements evaluated.

Requirement Standard / Clause Compliance level Status
Secure boot with hardware root of trust
IEC 62443-4-2
CR 3.4 / SL2
Compliant
JTAG/SWD debug interface lockdown
PSA Certified L2
SL2 / §4.1.3
Critical gap
Key storage isolation (TrustZone / TPM)
NIST 800-193
§4.2.3 / PR.1
Critical gap
OTA firmware update auth & rollback prevention
IEC 62443-4-2
CR 2.5 / SL2
Partial
Hardware True RNG entropy ≥ 256-bit
FIPS 140-3
§9.4 / L2
Compliant
Supply chain SBOM & component attestation
EU CRA Art.13
Annex I §II
Partial
Compliant (2) Partial (2) Gap (2)
Overall score: 49% → Roadmap generated — 4 phases

Ready to automate your hardware compliance?

Hardware security teams at tier-1 automotive, aerospace and IoT companies. First analysis free.

Solution

An AI agent that reasons like a hardware security auditor

NEXTSENTRA AI combines a fine-tuned LLM, a real-time standards database, and design-aware reasoning — performing in 72 hours what a specialist team would take weeks to complete.

Zero false-positive guarantee Standards updated weekly Explainable AI reasoning
Architecture

Four AI modules, one unified pipeline

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Standards intelligence agent

Maintains and queries the full corpus of cyber standards for semiconductors. Maps your domain and market to the applicable regulatory perimeter automatically.

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Design parsing engine

Ingests schematics, netlists, datasheets and architecture documents. Identifies components, interfaces, trust boundaries, and security-critical design elements.

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Gap analysis reasoner

Cross-references your design against extracted requirements. Produces a scored gap matrix with severity levels (critical, major, minor) and evidence references.

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Roadmap planner

Generates a phased remediation roadmap prioritised by severity, regulatory deadline, and engineering dependency. Exports to JIRA, Confluence, or PDF.

Roadmap output

A phased compliance roadmap — automatically generated

Each phase is prioritised by severity, regulatory deadline, and engineering dependency. Export to JIRA, Confluence, or PDF.

Phase 1 · Weeks 1–4
Critical gaps
  • JTAG/SWD debug lockdown
  • Secure enclave / key isolation
  • TARA threat model update
Phase 2 · Weeks 5–10
Major requirements
  • OTA signature chain hardening
  • Supply chain SBOM
  • Rollback prevention
Phase 3 · Weeks 11–16
Certification prep
  • PSA Certified RoT documentation
  • IEC 62443 SL evidence
  • Internal pre-audit review
Phase 4 · Month 5+
Certification & monitoring
  • Third-party lab submission
  • Continuous compliance monitoring
  • Standards update tracking
Sectors

Every domain covered

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Automotive
ISO 21434 · WP.29
✈️
Aerospace
DO-326A · ARP4754
🏭
Industrial OT
IEC 62443 · IEC 61508
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IoT & Edge
ETSI 303 645 · PSA
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Medical devices
MDR · IEC 62443
Smart energy
NERC CIP · IEC 62351
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Defence
Common Criteria · CMMC
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Secure elements
GlobalPlatform · EMVCo
Standards coverage

The most complete cyber standards database for hardware

A living knowledge base of every applicable standard, regulation, and technical requirement for semiconductors, chips, and embedded systems — updated weekly.

200+
Standards indexed
38
Regulatory bodies
Weekly
Update frequency
12
Industry domains
Core standards
IEC 62443
Industrial Automation & Control Systems
4 parts

Defines security levels SL1–SL4 for IACS components. Part 4-2 mandatory for embedded device certification.

PLCSoCIndustrial MCU
ISO/SAE 21434:2021
Road vehicles — Cybersecurity engineering
Mandatory

Defines TARA, cybersecurity goals and requirements for automotive ECUs, SoCs and supply chain security.

ECUAUTOSARV2X
NIST SP 800-193
Platform Firmware Resiliency
US Federal

Defines protect, detect, recover requirements for BIOS/UEFI firmware and platform root-of-trust components.

BIOSBMCFirmware
PSA Certified
Platform Security Architecture L1/L2/L3
Certification

ARM-led framework certifying Root of Trust, TrustZone, secure storage and attestation for IoT devices.

Cortex-MRoTTrustZone
ETSI EN 303 645
Consumer IoT Security baseline
EU

13 provisions including no default passwords, vulnerability disclosure, and secure update mechanisms for connected products.

Smart homeWearables
Common Criteria
ISO/IEC 15408 — EAL1–EAL7
Government

International evaluation standard for smartcard chips, TPMs, HSMs, secure enclaves — globally recognised.

SmartcardTPMHSM
FIPS 140-3
Cryptographic Module Security
NIST/CMVP

Security levels 1–4 for cryptographic modules including hardware RNG, key management, anti-tamper requirements.

Crypto ICHSMSE
DO-326A / ED-202A
Airworthiness Security Process
Aviation

RTCA/EUROCAE standard for aircraft system cybersecurity — applies to avionics processors, FMCs, IMA modules.

AvionicsIMAFMS
EU Cyber Resilience Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 — 2027
Upcoming

Mandatory requirements for all hardware products with digital elements sold in EU market. SBOM supply chain required.

All hardwareEU market
About NEXTSENTRA AI

Born in the lab. Built for silicon.

Founded by hardware security researchers and former semiconductor industry experts, NEXTSENTRA AI was created to solve the problem we faced ourselves: mapping security standards to silicon — manually, slowly, at enormous cost.

Mission

Making hardware security compliance accessible at every stage of silicon development

Security compliance should not be a bottleneck that only well-resourced tier-1 companies can afford. NEXTSENTRA AI brings the expertise of a full standards team to every chip designer, IP vendor, and embedded systems engineer — automatically.

2023
Year founded
40+
Client projects
200+
Standards covered
8
Core team experts
Team

Hardware security meets AI expertise

👨‍💻
Dr. Thuy Ngo
CEO & Co-Founder

Former hardware security architect at STMicroelectronics. PhD in embedded security (INSA Lyon). Led IEC 62443-4-2 certification for 3 SoC product families.

IEC 62443SoC Security
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Dr. Anh-Phuong Ta
CTO & Co-Founder

AI researcher specialising in technical document reasoning (INRIA). Former NLP lead at Arm Research. Architect of our standards-aware LLM engine.

LLMRAGNLP
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Man Diep
Head of Standards

20 years as hardware security evaluator at ANSSI and CESTI-accredited labs. Expert in Common Criteria, FIPS 140-3 and PSA Certified schemes.

CC / EALFIPS 140-3
Values

How we build trust

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Technical accuracy first

Every gap detection is explainable, traceable to the exact standard clause, validated by our in-house expert team before release.

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Design confidentiality

Your design files never leave your secure environment. On-premise and air-gapped deployment available for classified programmes.

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Standards always current

Our standards team monitors every IEC, ISO, NIST, ETSI and regulatory body publication. Database updated weekly, change notifications instant.

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Engineer-first UX

Built by hardware engineers for hardware engineers. Output speaks your language — clauses, requirements, design elements — not vague recommendations.

Contact

Start your first analysis

Book a 30-minute demo with one of our hardware security experts. First analysis free.

Request a demo

What to expect

A hardware security expert will walk you through a live analysis of a design similar to yours — showing exactly which gaps are detected and what the roadmap looks like.

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Email
thuy.ngo@nextsentra.ai
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Phone
+33 6 73 15 88 50
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Location
Antony, France — Remote worldwide
Included in your demo
Live analysis on a representative design
Standards perimeter mapping for your domain
Sample gap analysis report (PDF)
Compliance roadmap preview