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Trusted execution environments in several existing and upcoming CPUs demonstrate the success of confidential computing, with the caveat that tenants cannot securely use accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. In this paper, we reconsider the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Benedict Schlüter , Mark Kuhne , Fabio Aliberti , Shweta Shinde

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly adopted across sectors, the need for robust, proactive security strategies is paramount. Traditional defensive measures often fall short against the unique and evolving threats…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Josh Harguess , Chris M. Ward

As training artificial intelligence (AI) models is a lengthy and hence costly process, leakage of such a model's internal parameters is highly undesirable. In the case of AI accelerators, side-channel information leakage opens up the threat…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Andrija Nešković , Saleh Mulhem , Alexander Treff , Rainer Buchty , Thomas Eisenbarth , Mladen Berekovic

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent a growing menace to modern digital infrastructure. Unlike traditional cyberattacks, APTs are stealthy, adaptive, and long-lasting, often bypassing signature-based detection systems. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Talal Rahwan

In the era of Cyber Physical Systems, designers need to offer support for run-time adaptivity considering different constraints, including the internal status of the system. This work presents a run-time monitoring approach, based on the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tiziana Fanni , Daniel Madronal , Claudio Rubattu , Carlo Sau , Francesca Palumbo , Eduardo Juarez , Maxime Pelcat , Cesar Sanz , Luigi Raffo

AI Accelerator (AIA) are specialized hardware e.g., Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), that enable optimal and efficient execution of AI applications and on-device inference. The growing demand for AI applications has led to the widespread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Datta Manikanta Sri Hari Danduri , Aravind Kumar Machiry

Run-time attacks against programs written in memory-unsafe programming languages (e.g., C and C++) remain a prominent threat against computer systems. The prevalence of techniques like return-oriented programming (ROP) in attacking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Hans Liljestrand , Thomas Nyman , Kui Wang , Carlos Chinea Perez , Jan-Erik Ekberg , N. Asokan

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are being readily and rapidly adopted, increasingly permeating critical domains: from consumer platforms and enterprise software to networked systems with embedded agents. While this has unlocked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Amy Chang , Tiffany Saade , Sanket Mendapara , Adam Swanda , Ankit Garg

Adversarial artificial intelligence (AI) attacks pose a significant threat to autonomous transportation, such as maritime vessels, that rely on AI components. Malicious actors can exploit these systems to deceive and manipulate AI-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Mathew J. Walter , Aaron Barrett , Kimberly Tam

We present a kernel-level infrastructure that allows system-wide detection of malicious applications attempting to exploit cache-based side-channel attacks to break the process confinement enforced by standard operating systems. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Stefano Carnà , Serena Ferracci , Francesco Quaglia , Alessandro Pellegrini

Modern industrial systems face a growing threat from sophisticated cyberattacks that can cause significant operational disruptions. This work presents a novel methodology for identification of the most critical cyberattacks that may disrupt…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Bruno Paes Leao , Jagannadh Vempati , Siddharth Bhela , Tobias Ahlgrim , Daniel Arnold

Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xubin Fang , Rick S. Blum , Ramesh Bharadwaj , Brian M. Sadler

Adversarial attacks can compromise the robustness of real-world detection models. However, evaluating these models under real-world conditions poses challenges due to resource-intensive experiments. Virtual simulations offer an alternative,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Wei Jiang , Tianyuan Zhang , Shuangcheng Liu , Weiyu Ji , Zichao Zhang , Gang Xiao

Advanced persistent threats (APT) are stealthy cyber-attacks that are aimed at stealing valuable information from target organizations and tend to extend in time. Blocking all APTs is impossible, security experts caution, hence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Ghita Berrada , James Cheney , Petko Valtchev

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are among the most challenging cyberattacks to detect. They are carried out by highly skilled attackers who carefully study their targets and operate in a stealthy, long-term manner. Because APTs exhibit…

This study introduces an innovative approach to automating Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) processes in industrial environments by leveraging Microsoft's AI-powered security technologies. Historically, CTI has heavily relied on manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shrit Shah , Fatemeh Khoda Parast

The critical need for transparent and trustworthy machine learning in cybersecurity operations drives the development of this integrated Explainable AI (XAI) framework. Our methodology addresses three fundamental challenges in deploying AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Norrakith Srisumrith , Sunantha Sodsee

The transition of next generation advanced nuclear reactor systems from analog to fully digital instrumentation and control will necessitate robust mechanisms to safeguard against potential data integrity threats. One challenge is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Zachery Dahm , Vasileios Theos , Konstantinos Vasili , William Richards , Konstantinos Gkouliaras , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Modern warehouse-scale datacenters commonly collocate multiple jobs on shared machines to improve resource utilization. However, such collocation often leads to performance interference caused by antagonistic jobs that overconsume shared…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Sixiang Zhou , Nan Deng , Krzysiek Rzadca , Xiaojun Lin , Y. Charlie Hu

As artificial intelligence systems evolve from passive assistants into autonomous agents capable of executing consequential actions, the security boundary shifts from model outputs to tool execution. Traditional security paradigms - log…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Herman Errico