Hansen Zhang will present his Pre FPO "Practical High Performance Containment on FPGA" on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 2pm in CS 301.  

The members of his committee are as follows: David August (Reader and Examiner), Adrian Caulfield (Microsoft- Reader), Sharad Malik (Examiner), and Andrew Appel (Examiner)

Everyone is invited to his talk.  The talk title and abstract follows below.

Title: Practical High Performance Containment on FPGA

Abstract: 
The security of a computer system ultimately rests on the security of the underlying hardware components.  A containment-based security architecture secures systems using a single, simple HW root of trust to contain the malicious effects of untrusted components within the system. However, prior containment-based security architecture implementations have suffered from either unreasonable adoption costs or significant performance slowdowns. In this talk, I will present FPGAGuard, the first containment-based security architecture implementation that is both efficient and practical.   FPGAGuard secures a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system with a commodity PCIe FPGA network card as the root of trust and demonstrates reasonable performance on real programs.