Patent ID: 8836509

Claim:
A security device for protecting stored sensitive data including: a closed housing formed from a plurality of electrically connected layers, each said electrically connected layer comprising at least an array of conductor paths, said array of conductor paths including; a grid of traces on at least one side of the closed housing; a plurality of vias on at least one side of the closed housing; wherein, said vias electrically connect at least a subset of the electrically connected layers, one row of said vias is arranged in a closed loop around at least one of said plurality of electrically connected layers, and said vias includes at least one buried via, there being at least one conductor path of predetermined impedance between at least two of said plurality of vias, a memory means adapted to store sensitive data being contained within said closed housing, and a tamper detecting means adapted to detect a change in impedance of the array of conductor paths above a predetermined threshold value.