Operating System Security

Operating System Security is a subfield of computer security that focuses on the protection of operating systems from malicious access, modification, or disruption by enforcing secure design principles, access controls, and mitigation mechanisms intrinsic to system-level software.

1.7K

Publications

103.2K

Citations

3.8K

Authors

926

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

372

Variants

Os Security

Parents

Computer SecurityMobile Security

Children

Address Space Layout RandomizationAttack Surface ReductionControl-flow IntegrityDevice Driver SecurityFile System SecurityIsolationKernel SecurityLeast PrivilegeMandatory Integrity ControlMemory Protection

Publications

1.7K

Safeguarding cryptographic keys

G. R. Blakley · 1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK) · 1979 · 3.4K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

Intrusion detection using sequences of system calls

Steven Hofmeyr, Stephanie Forrest, Anil Somayaji · Journal of Computer Security · 1998 · 1.3K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +16

A Sense of Self for Unix Processes

1996 · 1.1K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +15

Detecting intrusions using system calls: alternative data models

C. Warrender, Stephanie Forrest, Barak A. Pearlmutter · 2003 · 1.1K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +17

Innovative instructions and software model for isolated execution

Frank Mckeen, Ilya Alexandrovich, Alex Berenzon et al. · 2013 · 1.1K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +12

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Authors

3.8K

TJ
Trent Jaeger
Pennsylvania State University, United States
25 publications · 2.1K citations
16
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Emmett Witchel
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
13 publications · 879 citations
12
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XJ
Xuxian Jiang
North Carolina State University, United States
13 publications · 761 citations
12
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PM
Patrick McDaniel
Pennsylvania State University, United States
12 publications · 2.3K citations
12
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JC
John Criswell
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
10 publications · 699 citations
11
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Institutions

926

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Venues

USENIX Security Symposium
Conference · 25 publications · 4.3K citations
21
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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
31 publications · 2.2K citations
20
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IEEE Security & Privacy
25 publications · 1.5K citations
16
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Computers & Security
21 publications · 830 citations
15
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ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
TISSEC · 17 publications · 1.5K citations
15
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