Entry Date:
October 29, 2010

MIT CSAIL Computer Systems Security (CSS) Group

Principal Investigator Nickolai Zeldovich

Co-investigator Henry Corrigan-Gibbs


The Computer Systems Security (CSS) Group researches and builds secure, practical, and flexible systems. Our work spans operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, programming languages, and web browsers. 
Projects include:

(*) Undo computing, an approach to repairing systems after compromise or corruption.
(*) HiStar, an operating system that minimizes trusted code.
(*) Resin, a language runtime that helps programmers write secure applications.
(*) Cinder, an operating system providing resource control for mobile devices.
(*) BStore, an in-browser system for data sharing between web applications.
(*) Sud, a framework for confining malicious Linux device drivers.
(*) UserFS, a Linux extension that allows any process to allocate fresh user IDs.