Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner

Research Scientist @ Intel Labs

About

I’m interested in analyzing, designing, building and evaluating secure software and hardware systems. In particular, in techniques protecting data confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data at rest, in-flight or in-memory.

Interests

System Security
Operating Systems
Distributed Systems

Education & Experience

Research Scientist, since April, 2019

Intel Labs
PhD in Computer Science, February, 2019

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems & Saarland University
B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science, September, 2009

Cooperative University State University Baden-Wuertemberg

Projects

Protecting Persistent Data

Enforcing security policies at the storage layer to reduce attack surface of existing solutions.

Secure, Efficient In-Process Memory Isolation

Providing isolation for sensitive data and state to increase the security and robustness of applications.

Shielding Applications in an untrusted Cloud

Lift and shift unmodified applications into Intel SGX enclaves to shield them in an untrusted cloud.

Selected Publications

More Publications

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning in Untrusted Clouds Made Simple

Dayeol Lee, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Mona Vij

arXiv, 2020.

Automatically Securing Linux Application Containers in Untrusted Clouds

Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii

Linux Security Summit, 2020.

ERIM: Secure, Efficient In-Process Isolation with Memory Protection Keys

Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Eslam Elnikety, Nuno O. Duarte, Michael Sammler, Peter Druschel, Deepak Garg

USENIX Security,
Distinguished Paper Award and Internet Defense Prize, 2019.

PDF Code Slides Video

Pesos: Policy Enhanced Secure Object store

Robert Krahn, Bohdan Trach, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Thomas Knauth, Pramod Bhatotia, Christof Fetzer

ACM EuroSys, 2018.

Light-Weight Contexts: An OS Abstraction for Safety and Performance

James Litton, Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Eslam Elnikety, Deepak Garg, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter Druschel

USENIX OSDI, 2016.

Thoth : Comprehensive Policy Compliance in Data Retrieval Systems

Eslam Elnikety, Aastha Mehta, Anjo Vahldiek-oberwagner, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel

Usenix Security, 2016.

Guardat: Enforcing data policies at the storage layer

Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Eslam Elnikety, Aastha Mehta, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Johannes Gehrke, Ansley Post

ACM EuroSys, 2015.

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Service

Program Committee

Middleware’20 Doctoral Workshop
Intel Software Professionals Conference (SWPC) - Security Track PC
EuroSys’20 ShadowPC
SOCC’19 Posters

Artifact Evaluation

OSDI’20 Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair
USENIX Security’20
SOSP’19

External Reviewer

EuroSys’18
HotOS’17
OSDI’16

Organization

Registration for EuroSys’21

Awards

Facebook and USENIX Internet Defense Prize 2019
Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2019