2016/05/09 by Mounir Assaf, Assaf, Mounir, David A. Naumann +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #Security and Verification in Computing
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.02778
openalex publication_date 2016/05/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Fine grained information flow monitoring can in principle address a wide range of security and privacy goals, for example in web applications. But it is very difficult to achieve sound monitoring with acceptable runtime cost and sufficient precision to avoid impractical restrictions on programs and policies. We present a systematic technique for design of monitors that are correct by construction. It encompasses policies with downgrading. The technique is based on abstract interpretation which is a standard basis for static analysis of programs. This should enable integration of a wide range of analysis techniques, enabling more sophisticated engineering of monitors to address the challenges of precision and scaling to widely used programming languages.