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Department of Computer Science and Technology

Date: 
Tuesday, 5 December, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Speaker: 
Nicholas Boucher, University of Cambridge
Venue: 
Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

In this talk we will present a new technique for identifying software supply chain attacks. Supply chain attacks are particularly powerful due to their ability to affect many victims through the compromise of a single shared dependency. While supply chain attacks are not new, they have received significant industry, government, and research attention following multiple high-profile attacks such as SolarWinds and Log4j. The techniques we will present inject metadata into compiled binaries to track the recursive set of dependencies used in its creation. This information is stored in a highly efficient probabilistic data structure to form the Automatic Bill of Materials, or ABOM. In the talk, we will describe the design of the ABOM and outline our vision for how it could be used to perform faster mitigation in future supply chain attacks.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075212667?pwd=N0lrNUNrbG9aa3NWc2dEUHN2SzM4Zz09

RECORDING : Please note, this event will be recorded and will be available after the event for an indeterminate period under a CC BY -NC-ND license. Audience members should bear this in mind before joining the webinar or asking questions.

Seminar series: 
Security Seminar

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