James' USENIX 2007 notes: Refereed Papers: System Security

System Security
Session Chair: Win Treese, SiCortex, Inc.

This series of invited talks is about, well, system security.

From Trusted to Secure: Building and Executing Applications That Enforce System Security
Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Trent Jaeger, and Patrick McDaniel, Pennsylvania State University

I didn't attend the presentation of this paper. (I walked in just as the presenters finished.)

From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, and Angelos D. Keromytis, Columbia University

Most of the meat of this presentation comes from the paper; the presenter highly recommends that we read it.

Dynamic Spyware Analysis
Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda, Secure Systems Lab, Technical University Vienna
Heng Yin, Carnegie Mellon University and College of William and Mary
Dawn Song, Carnegie Mellon University

Check out the paper for a better description of a VHO—lots of malware utilize them.

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