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:

April 13, 2023 | 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…

March 8, 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…