September 2024: Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards System Security Industry

When
September 4th, 2024 11:00 AM EST

Who
Dr. Chen Liu, Associate Professor, Clarkson University

What
“ Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards System Security Industry”

Description
Cyber-attacks come in many different shapes and forms. In order to combat modern cyber-attacks, cyber-security researchers have to play the game of “cat and mouse” in analyzing and discovering the vulnerabilities of the system to come out on top against malicious attackers. However, the traditional static detection systems are not able to differentiate between benign and malicious behaviors effectively. In this talk, I will share our thoughts on the detection of different attacks through modeling the execution behavior of an application using low-level hardware information. Our approaches can provide more flexibility for detection schemes by performing dynamic behavioral analysis at run-time. With anomaly detection methods, the abnormal behaviors that deviate from benign behaviors at run-time can be flagged and captured.