Using Hardware Performance Counters to Ensure Information Security of Critical Systems
Abstract
The article discusses the possibility of using hardware performance counters, commonly used in the creating of system execution profiles, to identify potential security threats to critically important systems and complexes. The authors have ported an open Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI), which is used to manage hardware counters.
About the Authors
V. Galatenko
Федеральное государственное учреждение «Федеральный научный центр Научно-исследовательский институт системных исследований Российской академии наук»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir Galatenko
K. Kostiukhin
Федеральное государственное учреждение «Федеральный научный центр Научно-исследовательский институт системных исследований Российской академии наук»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Konstantin Kostiukhin
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Review
For citations:
Galatenko V., Kostiukhin K. Using Hardware Performance Counters to Ensure Information Security of Critical Systems. SRISA Proceedings. 2023;13(4):29-33. (In Russ.)
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