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Memory Firewall monitors apps at run time to ward off malicious code
WHEN IT COMES TO FOILING hackers, Saman Amarasinghe views the world in stark terms.
"There is a black-and-white line," says Amarasinghe, an associate professor at Massachussets Institute of Technology and CTO of Determina, maker of a host-based intrusion prevention system based on what the company calls Memory Firewall technology. "White is what a program would normally do. Black is what an exploit would force it to do."
To better protect the Windows operating environment from intrusion, Amarasinghe teamed up a few years ago with two MIT students,...