Accession Number:

ADA616985

Title:

Hardware, Languages, and Architectures for Defense Against Hostile Operating Systems

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Aug 2009-July 2014

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY COMPUTER SCIENCE DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Wagner, David

Report Date:

2015-05-14

Pagination or Media Count:

29.0

Abstract:

The Defending Against Hostile Operating Systems research project focused on building systems that will remain secure even when the operating system is compromised or hostile. It was a collaborative effort among researchers from Harvard, Stony Brook, U.C. Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Virginia. The project studied this problem from a number of angles, including operating system design, hypervisor enforcement, static analysis, and hardware design, and on a number of platforms, including desktop systems, servers, and mobile systems. The team developed numerous mechanisms and techniques for addressing this problem.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER SECURITY
• *OPERATING SYSTEMS(COMPUTERS)
• *SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
• CLIENT SERVER SYSTEMS
• CLOUD COMPUTING
• COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS
• COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• COMPUTER VIRUSES
• CRYPTOGRAPHY
• INFORMATION ASSURANCE
• INTERNET BROWSERS
• MOBILE COMPUTING
• NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
• SECURE COMMUNICATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Systems Management and Standards
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE