System security, hardware security and reverse

Objectifs

At the end of this module, the student will have understood and be able to explain (main concepts):

- The main protection mechanisms that now exist in the kernel of operating system;
- The main attacks carried out from hardware component and associated contermeasures;
- The internals of the key hardware components for security such as hypervisor and IOMMU;
- The advantages of latest advances in hardware protection carried out by the founders of processors and chipset;
- The logic of physical attacks targeting computer systems;
- Reverse engineering software (reverse engineering) while being able to explain the toolchain of the compilation with the models used by compilers to generate machine code;
- Strategies to make reverse engineering software more difficult to achieve.

The student will be able to:

- Identify the most suitable software components to protect the operating system software against attacks;
- Identify threats from lower layers to higher layers and attack vectors to be considered in a system;
- Obtain an overview of the exchanges between the hardware components of a system to identify critical components and determine the contermeasures to integrate into the operating system;
- Identify threats on the physical components of a system;
- Conduct a reverse engineering of malware to understand their behavior and generate signatures to detect them.

Pré-requis

Good programming skills in C and assembly language;

- A minimum of knowledge about the internals of the OS;
- Bases in algebra and the use of automata theory.

Évaluation

L’évaluation des acquis d’apprentissage est réalisée en continu tout le long du semestre. En fonction des enseignements, elle peut prendre différentes formes : examen écrit, oral, compte-rendu, rapport écrit, évaluation par les pairs…