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-Internal Mamber: \>  Mark Crowley \\ 
-\> Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering\\
+Internal-External Member: \>  Diogo Barradas\\ 
+\> Assistant Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science\\
 \> University of Waterloo \\
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-Internal Member: \> Patrick Mitran\\
+Internal Member: \> Mark Crowley\\
 \> Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering\\
 \> University of Waterloo \\
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-This is the abstract.
+Most current Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) share the flaw of requiring the cooperation of the system to protect.
+Whether the IDS is a software or hardware component, they don't perform the detection independently and require the system to protect to execute or call them.
+This is a critical flaw as it allows attackers to avoid detection by forging input data, forging detection results, or bypassing the IDS altogether.
+This is particularly problematic for firmware-level attacks that enable control of the most critical components of the machine, making the attacks especially difficult to detect, mitigate, and remove. 
 
+This observation leads to the conclusion that we cannot entrust machines to assess their integrity.
+To remain trustworthy, the IDS must be independent of the machine to protect and require no cooperation to perform the detection.
+The main challenge with such a system is getting access to relevant data.
+Network-based IDS fit in this category and exhibit complete independence, but their input data --- network communication from the machine --- is only relevant for a small subset of attacks.
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+This thesis proposes to explore another family of IDSs called physics-based IDS that leverages side-channel information.
+Side-channel information is a perfect candidate for intrusion detection.
+The generation of this information is, by definition, involuntary.
+Hence, their measurement requires no communication with the machine to protect.
+Moreover, if chosen carefully, side-channel information can provide insight into all activities performed by the machine.
+Finally, side-channel information remains practical to measure on virtually any embedded system, providing a solution that is not only theoretical but also applicable in the real world.
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+This proposal describes the exploratory work already achieved in the domain of physics-based IDS and outlines the main problems to study to evaluate the potential of this technology.
 
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