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Runtime Integrity and Presence Verification for Software Agents

Source: Intel
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Many of today’s vulnerabilities can be effectively and reliably addressed with a firmware-based approach to integrity services, an approach that has already been prototyped and proven on an IA-32 platform, for both Linux and Windows. This firmware-based approach, called System Integrity Services (SIS), makes use of a true, isolated execution environment, as well as sophisticated integrity checks and forgery-protected, execution-presence verification, to detect attacks that circumvent, tamper with, or disable critical software agents running on a host computing system.


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