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Computer Science Seminar: Hardware-Assisted Isolated Computing Environments
(Greater Washington DC Metro Area)
Kun Sun, a research professor in the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University, will present "Hardware-Assisted Isolated Computing Environments."
He will address the issue of protecting commodity systems with commercial operating systems without significantly degrading performance or usability. He will introduce a novel BIOS-assisted mechanism to enable secure instantiation and management of isolated computing environments, tailored to separate security-sensitive activities from untrusted ones on x86 architecture and a hardware-assisted dependability framework that leverages System Management Mode (SMM) to inspect the state of a system.
Sun will also demonstrate several use cases including heap spray, heap overflow, and rootkit detection using real-world attacks on Windows and Linux platforms. The system is 100 times faster than similar VMI systems.
Sun received his Ph.D. in computer science from North Carolina State University in 2006. Prior to joining George Mason in 2010, he was a research scientist at Intelligent Automation Inc. His current research focuses on trustworthy computing environment, moving target defense, smart phone security, cloud security, and wireless security.
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