Azure Research – Security and Privacy
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Preventing side-channels in the cloud
| 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:
Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024
Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads.
Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024
In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performance disparities on blind/low vision data; plus recent news.
Research Focus: Week of November 22, 2023
A new deep-learning compiler for dynamic sparsity; Tongue Tap could make tongue gestures viable for VR/AR headsets; Ranking LLM-Generated Loop Invariants for Program Verification; Assessing the limits of zero-shot foundation models in single-cell biology.
Research Focus: Week of June 19, 2023
In this issue: Our new Responsible AI Maturity Model; FoundWright helps “re-find” web pages; Trace-guided Inductive Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs; a wait-free algorithm for weak reference counting; and new research on concurrency testing.
Research Focus: Week of June 5, 2023
In this issue: Peter Lee discusses AI in medicine. Plus, new research on data inference privacy in machine learning; PII leakage in language models; and automatic prompt organization with gradient descent and beam search.
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…