Silicon Assurance and Tamper-Evident Supply Chains: Building Trust from Chip to Deployment  

As semiconductor supply chains become increasingly global, distributed, and strategically important, assuring the integrity of hardware has emerged as a critical challenge. Components may pass through multiple organisations, jurisdictions, and logistics environments before deployment, creating opportunities for tampering, substitution, counterfeiting, or loss of provenance. Yet organisations often have limited visibility into these risks and few practical mechanisms to evidence trust throughout a device’s journey. This presentation will examine the growing challenge of silicon assurance and transport integrity, highlighting why supply-chain trust is becoming a fundamental requirement for cyber resilience, critical infrastructure, and national security.

Biography

Isabela Radulescu is a technology and business leader driving partnerships, operations, and strategic growth at Ethicronics. She helped build the company from its early-stage foundations while studying at the University of Cambridge before joining full-time to support its commercial development and industry engagement.

Prior to Ethicronics, Isabela was a Tech Lead at Lloyds Banking Group, leading engineering teams delivering data, analytics, and AI platforms across multiple business units. Her experience spans technology delivery, innovation strategy, and ecosystem development across both large organisations and startups. She holds an MPhil in Management from the University of Cambridge and a First Class Honours BSc in Psychology from Durham University.