CORONAVIRUS, LOCKDOWN, AND ECONOMY

Relaxed Lockdown in Bangladesh During COVID-19: Should Economy Outweigh Health?

Lockdown: Dynamic Control-Flow Integrity

Applications written in low-level languages without type or memory safety are especially prone to memory corruption. Attackers gain code execution capabilities through such applications despite all currently deployed defenses by exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is a promising defense mechanism that restricts open control-flow transfers to a static set o...

Simplifying Network Management with Lockdown

The administrator of an enterprise network has a responsibility to enforce the policies on the network. Yet, most security mechanisms do not map well to the intended policies. This has been due to the prevalence of simplistic tools that have poor enforcement but, yet are easy to manage. While advanced commercial solutions do exist that have stronger enforcement, they are significantly harder to...

Lockdown: A Safe and Practical Environment for Security Applications

We describe, build, and evaluate Lockdown, a system that significantly increases the level of security for online transactions, even on a platform infested with malicious code. Lockdown provides the user with a highly-protected, yet also highly-constrained trusted environment for performing online transactions, as well as a high-performance, general-purpose environment for all other (non-securi...

Lockdown: Simplifying Enterprise Network Management with Local Context

The administrator of an enterprise network has a responsibility to enforce the policies on the network. Yet, most security mechanisms do not map well to the intended policies. This has been due to the prevalence of simplistic tools that have poor enforcement but, yet are easy to manage. While advanced commercial solutions do exist that have stronger enforcement, they are significantly harder to...