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Preventing side-channels in the cloud

November 12, 2024 | Stavros Volos and Boris Köpf
Sophisticated side-channel attacks present new security challenges for cloud providers. Learn how Microsoft is exploring defenses against emerging attacks with principled microarchitectural isolation:

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