Workshop on Secure Execution of Untrusted Code

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working on the protection of software systems against untrusted code. The workshop will be a platform for presenting and discussing recent developments and future directions.

Broadband access to the Internet is a key factor to the increased availability of untrusted code. Typically, various applications are downloaded and executed locally. All these applications have in common that their origin is often unknown or their trustworthiness cannot be assessed. The user wants to be sure that his system is not harmed when executing untrusted applications from an unknown source. Thus, the applications should only access those resources and only call those functions that are considered as non-security-critical. However, to allow applications to execute properly, they need a minimal set of rights which differs from application to application. The proliferation of malware and the increment of flaws in program code require securing systems against untrusted code to prevent unauthorized access to resources. The workshop addresses various topics of this field.