Software Protection to Fight through an Attack

This project proposes the research of an adaptive software-protection technology based on moving critical software components and data in and out-of-band depending on whether an attack is ongoing or not, and its severity. The approach is based on adaptive and gradual increase of the protection, deployed at runtime, by varying the fraction of the execution and data mapped to one or more trusted hardware protection devices (HPDs) during an attack. The proposed solution will considerably improve the security provided by current state-of-the-art software protection solutions and will provide a means for software to remain operational and trustworthy during an attack.