Systems Security

Course Description: This course will focus on security at the intersection of hardware and software exploring a range of topics – from microarchitectural side-channels and transient execution attacks targeting commodity platforms, to fault injection and timing attacks on DRAM/CPU and caches, fuzzing of embedded systems and Trusted Execution Environments (TrustZone),  cryptanalysis of hardware cryptographic engines using power analysis, and automated analysis and generation of attack workloads – to illustrate modern research challenges and applications in the area. Understanding of both theoretical underpinnings and practical demonstration will be emphasized, with a heavy bent towards the latter.