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Secure Portable Execution Environments: A Review Of Available Technologies, Peter James
Secure Portable Execution Environments: A Review Of Available Technologies, Peter James
Australian Information Security Management Conference
Live operating systems and virtualisation allow a known, defined, safe and secure execution environment to be loaded in to a PC’s memory and executed with either minimal or possibly no reliance on the PC’s internal hard disk drive. The ability to boot a live operating system or load a virtual environment (containing an operating system) from a USB storage device allows a secure portable execution environment to be created. Portable execution environments have typically been used by technologists, for example to recover data from a failing PC internal hard disk drive or to perform forensic analysis. However, with the commercial …