Resting Falsehood and Protecting Integrity

Ten Simple Rules for Protecting Research Integrity

Research integrity is frequently highlighted as an essential component of modern medicine and science. Adherence to the ethical principles of one’s profession might seem like a simple task, but research misconduct remains a serious problem. Despite repeated calls for increased emphasis on the importance of research integrity [1–6] and a proliferation of guidelines regulating scientific miscondu...

Protecting Data Integrity with Storage Leases

We present a storage primitive called a storage lease. Data stored under a lease cannot be written for a pre-determined period. During the lease period, online data is protected from corruption due to security breaches, software errors, or accidental data deletion. Storage leases fill an important gap in the spectrum of data protection options because they combine strong integrity for online da...

VTint: Protecting Virtual Function Tables' Integrity

In the recent past, a number of approaches have been proposed to protect certain types of control data in a program, such as return addresses saved on the stack, rendering most traditional control flow hijacking attacks ineffective. Attackers, however, can bypass these defenses by launching advanced attacks that corrupt other data, e.g., pointers indirectly used to access code. One of the most ...

Protecting Clinical Trial Participants and Protecting Data Integrity: Are We Meeting the Challenges?

A long-standing tenet of clinical trial conduct is that the accumulating data must be monitored, if not continuously then at regular intervals during the trial. Such regular review helps to ensure that risks to participants are not greater than anticipated and that the study is being conducted appropriately. Early randomized trials were typically monitored by the investigator(s), the research f...

Architectural Support for Protecting Memory Integrity and Confidentiality