The Continuing Arms Race by Per Larsen

The Continuing Arms Race by Per Larsen

As human activities moved to the digital domain, so did all the well-known malicious behaviors including fraud, theft, and other trickery. There is no silver bullet, and each security threat calls for a specific answer. One specific threat is that applications accept malformed inputs, and in many cases it is possible to craft inputs that let an intruder take full control over the target computer system.

The nature of systems programming languages lies at the heart of the problem. Rather than rewriting decades of well-tested functionality, this book examines ways to live with the (programming) sins of the past while shoring up security in the most efficient manner possible. We explore a range of different options, each making significant progress towards securing legacy programs from malicious inputs.

The solutions explored include enforcement-type defenses, which excludes certain program executions because they never arise during normal operation. Another strand explores the idea of presenting adversaries with a moving target that unpredictably changes its attack surface thanks to randomization. We also cover tandem execution ideas where the compromise of one executing clone causes it to diverge from another thus revealing adversarial activities. The main purpose of this book is to provide readers with some of the most influential works on run-time exploits and defenses. We hope that the material in this book will inspire readers and generate new ideas and paradigms.

Wachsmann, Christian: - Christian Wachsmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing (ICRISC) at TU Darmstadt. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His current research focuses on the design, development, formal modeling, and security analysis of security architectures and cryptographic protocols to verify the software integrity (attestation) of embedded systems. Christian is the main author of more than 30 scientific publications in internationally renowned journals and conferences on information and communications security.

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ISBN 13	9781970001839
ISBN 10	1970001836
Title	The Continuing Arms Race
Author	Per Larsen
Series	Acm Bks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Year published	2018-02-28
Number of pages	302
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