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Hunting speculative information leaks with Revizor
| Boris Köpf and Oleksii Oleksenko
Spectre and Meltdown are two security vulnerabilities that affect the vast majority of CPUs in use today. CPUs, or central processing units, act as the brains of a computer, directing the functions of its other components. By targeting a feature…
Research Focus: Week of March 6, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Attack methods like Spectre (opens in new tab) exploit speculative execution, one of…
Research Focus: Week of February 6, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In the latest episode of Behind the Tech, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott…
Awards | Views: Compositional reasoning for concurrent programs
Views paper wins “Most Influential POPL 2013 paper”
Research trends in privacy, security and cryptography
| Manuel Costa, Weidong Cui, Karen Easterbrook, Paul England, Hamed Khanpour, Kim Laine, Kapil Vaswani, Mike Walker, and Ryen W. White
Trust is essential for people and organizations to use technology with confidence. At Microsoft, we strive to earn the trust of our customers, employees, communities, and partners by committing to privacy, security, the responsible use of AI, and transparency. At…
Research Focus: Week of November 17, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is a proud platinum sponsor of the 36th annual conference on Neural…
In the news | Azure Confidential Computing Blog
Microsoft introduces preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Microsoft has been a pioneer in bringing new confidential computing technology to market. As we have been talking to customers, we have identified customer challenges with scenarios that require a combination of multi-party governance, integrity protection, and programmable confidentiality, even in the face of datacenter or host operator compromise.
Confidential Containers: Verifiably secure computation in the cloud
| Sean T. Allen
For many organizations, trusting their data to the cloud requires having a complete understanding of and control over the environment in which that data resides and how it’s being processed. Microsoft understands this, and we are committed to building a…
In the news | Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
New Research Paper: Pre-hijacking Attacks on Web User Accounts
In 2020, MSRC awarded two Identity Project Research Grants to support external researchers working to further strengthen the security of identity protocols and systems. Today we are pleased to release the results of the first of these projects. This research, led by…