Maysara Alhindi
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Year 3 Student - 2021 intake - Cohort 3 I have a BSc in Computer Engineering and 3 years of experience as a web/mobile developer, I am interested generally in malware analysis and antimalware software, and I enjoy learning and exploring low-level systems implementations in general. I am aiming to do research on malware and techniques that can be used to protect from malware attacks on IoT systems, but I still prefer to keep my options open for any interesting research problems. |
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PhD Project |
Usable Sandboxing for Embedded Operating Systems Sandboxing and privilege separation mechanisms are essential security concepts that enable resilience by isolating and limiting what a program can do. While desktop operating systems have various sandboxing APIs and libraries, embedded and real-time operating systems have a limited set of options. Embedded operating systems can significantly benefit from solutions that enable a more granular and specific privilege separation mechanisms. The research aim is to harden operating systems' security by studying how developers use sandboxing mechanisms in their software and make further suggestions in order to improve the usability and security of operating systems, and potentially to create a solution that fits the technical needs of embedded operating systems. Supervisors: Dr Joseph Hallett (Bristol), Dr Daniel Page (Bristol) |
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PhD Poster |