Research on transient execution attacks including Spectre and Meltdown showed that
exception or branch misprediction events might leave secret-dependent traces in the CPU's …

With embedded devices becoming more pervasive and entrenched in society, it is
paramount to keep these systems secure. A threat plaguing these systems consists of …

Sensitive data processing occurs more and more on machines or devices out of users
control. In the Internet of Things world, for example, the security of data could be posed at …

Isolating sensitive state and data can increase the security and robustness of many
applications. Examples include protecting cryptographic keys against exploits like …

The C and C++ programming languages are notoriously insecure yet remain indispensable.
Developers therefore resort to a multi-pronged approach to find security issues before …

Run-time attacks against programs written in memory-unsafe programming languages (eg,
C and C++) remain a prominent threat against computer systems. The prevalence of …

Modern Intel, AMD, and ARM processors translate complex instructions into simpler internal
micro-ops that are then cached in a dedicated on-chip structure called the micro-op cache …

Emerging IoT applications with real-time latency constraints require new data processing
systems operating at the Edge. Serverless computing offers a new compelling paradigm …

Memory-safety violations are the primary cause of security and reliability issues in software
systems written in unsafe languages. Given the limited adoption of decades-long research in …

Shielded execution based on Intel SGX provides strong security guarantees for legacy
applications running on untrusted platforms. However, memory safety attacks such as …