1. A processing system comprising: an application processor having an execution unit and an on-chip memory; a modem; an I/O interface; a peripheral interconnect coupled to the application processor, the modem, and the I/O interface; a non-volatile memory to store verification enforcement instructions; a system memory having a secure partition; and a processor coupled to the non-volatile memory and the system memory, the processor comprising: an on-chip basic input/output system (BIOS) containing bootstrap security logic; and an execution unit coupled to the on-chip BIOS and the system memory, the execution unit configured to perform operations specified by the bootstrap security logic, the operations including copying the verification enforcement instructions from the non-volatile memory to the secure partition and verifying the authenticity of the verification enforcement instructions.