A framework for testing hardware-software security architectures
Jeffrey S. Dwoskin, Mahadevan Gomathisankaran, Yu-Yuan Chen, Ruby B. Lee · 2010
New security architectures are difficult to prototype and test at the design stage. Fine-grained monitoring of the interactions between hardware, the operating system and applications is required. We have designed and prototyped a testing framework, using virtualization, that can emulate the behavior of new hardware mechanisms in the virtual CPU and can perform a wide range of hardware and software attacks on the system under test.