This paper describes an efficient and robust approach to provide a safe execution environment for an entire operating system, such as Linux, and all its applications. The approach...
John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, ...
1 The browser has become a popular attack vector for implanting code on computer operating systems. Equally critical, important sessions, such as online banking, must be protected ...
The role of small devices in the emerging all-connected computer infrastructure is growing. So are the requirements that the application execution environments face. Portability, ...
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...