Alexander Cathis received the Best Paper award for his “Systemization-of-Knowledge” paper at the Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) Workshop in Austin, Texas in November.
The HASP Workshop focuses on how computer hardware and system design can help improve security and privacy, especially with new technologies like smart devices and cloud computing. It brings together experts to share ideas, research, and real-world experiences on making hardware more secure.
Systemization-of-Knowledge papers concisely, but exhaustively, systematize and conceptualize existing knowledge. Cathis’s paper, “Power Side-Channel Malware Detection,” looks at how measuring a computer’s power use can help detect malware without changing the system. It reviews past research, points out important gaps—like not testing on modern multi-core systems—and tests new methods on a drone platform, sharing the data to help others continue the research.
You can read Cathis’s paper in full here.