Stefan Mangard

Stefan Mangard is a Professor at the Institute of Information Security at Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz). His primary research focuses on hardware security, cryptographic countermeasures, and mitigating vulnerabilities in computer systems. He specializes in side-channel attacks, fault attacks, and secure processor architectures. Current work includes defending against kernel exploits, memory safety mechanisms, and cryptographic protocol implementations.

His research interests span topics such as kernel data structure protection, memory tagging systems, and scalable isolation techniques. He has pioneered defenses against cache attacks, fault-induced control-flow hijacking, and side-channel vulnerabilities in embedded systems. Notable projects include KernelSnitch for kernel data structure analysis and TME-Box for Intel-based memory encryption.

Recent work emphasizes practical exploitation of defenses (e.g., TLB side-channels), RISC-V enclave architectures (SPEAR-V), and cross-cache attacks in Linux kernels. His contributions bridge hardware-software co-design for robust security mechanisms, with a focus on real-world exploit scenarios and commodity hardware compatibility.