Computer security encompasses concepts and methods for protecting sensitive resources in
computer systems. Computer security starts from the policies that regulate access to …

With the advances of chip manufacturing technologies, computer architects have been able
to integrate an increasing number of processors and other heterogeneous components on …

Modern processors use branch prediction and speculative execution to maximize
performance. For example, if the destination of a branch depends on a memory value that is …

In this chapter, we describe code-pointer integrity (CPI), a new design point that guarantees
the integrity of all code pointers in a program (eg, function pointers, saved return addresses) …

Industrial control systems (ICSs) are transitioning from legacy-electromechanical-based
systems to modern information and communication technology (ICT)-based systems …

Memory corruption bugs in software written in low-level languages like C or C++ are one of
the oldest problems in computer security. The lack of safety in these languages allows …

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a widely-used technique that protects
systems against a range of attacks. ASLR works by randomizing the offset of key program …

Remote attestation is a crucial security service particularly relevant to increasingly popular
IoT (and other embedded) devices. It allows a trusted party (verifier) to learn the state of a …

Fine-grained address space layout randomization (ASLR) has recently been proposed as a
method of efficiently mitigating runtime attacks. In this paper, we introduce the design and …

Due to the prevalence of control-flow hijacking attacks, a wide variety of defense methods to
protect both user space and kernel space code have been developed in the past years. A …