Zahra Tarkhani

Enclaves in the clouds

2021 · Communications of the ACM

Trusted Execution Environments ('TEEs') or 'secure enclaves' aim at enabling more secure computation and data management. There is much enthusiasm for this technology, not least as we see increasing legal and regulatory attention on issues …

Enabling Lightweight Privilege Separation in Applications with MicroGuards

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Application compartmentalization and privilege separation are our primary weapons against ever-increasing security threats and privacy concerns on connected devices. Despite significant progress, it is still challenging to privilege separate inside an application address space and …