Dr William PENSEC

Scientific publications

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Award:

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List of conference paper:

• 2024
  

  Scripting the Unpredictable: Automate Fault Injection in CABA Simulation for Vulnerability Assessment
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
  Paris, France

  Exploring Fault Injection Attacks on CVA6 PMP Configuration Flow
  Kévin Quénéhervé, William Pensec, Philippe Tanguy, Rachid Dafali and Vianney Lapôtre
  Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
  Paris, France

  Defending the Citadel: Fault Injection Attacks against Dynamic Information Flow Tracking and Related Countermeasures
  William Pensec, Francesco Regazzoni, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
  Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

• 2023

  Another Break in the Wall: Harnessing Fault Injection Attacks to Penetrate Software Fortresses
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Security and Privacy of Sensing Systems (Sensors S&P)
  Istanbul, Turkiye

• 2022

  Smart Anomaly Detection and Monitoring of Industry 4.0 by Drones
  William Pensec, David Espès and Catherine Dezan
  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
  Dubrovnik, Croatia

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List of oral presentations:

• 2025

  Enhanced Processor Defence Against Physical and Software Threats by Securing DIFT Against Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec
  Seminar to present my research
  Montpellier, France

• 2024

  Enhanced Processor Defence Against Physical and Software Threats by Securing DIFT Against Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec
  PhD Thesis Defense
  Lorient, France

• 2023

  Protecting a RISC-V embedded processor against physical and software attacks
  Vianney Lapôtre, William Pensec and Guy Gogniat
  BITFLIP by DGA-European Cyber Week (BITFLIP by DGA)
  Rennes, France

  Unveiling the Invisible Threads: Dynamic Information Flow Tracking and the Intriguing World of Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Journée thématique sur les Attaques par Injection de Fautes (JAIF) / Thematic day on Fault Injection Attacks
  Gardanne, France

  Fault Injection Attacks Against an In-Core DIFT Mechanism
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Cyberus Summer School 2023 (CYBERUS)
  Lorient, France

  When in-core Dynamic Information Flow Tracking faces fault injection attacks
  Vianney Lapôtre, William Pensec and Guy Gogniat
  19th International Workshops on Cryptographic architectures embedded in logic devices (CryptArchi)
  Cantabria, Espagne

• 2022

  Protection of a processor with DIFT against physical attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Présentation des travaux de recherche aux étudiants du Master CYBERUS Erasmus Mundus
  Lorient, France

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List of presented posters:

• 2025

  Implementation and evaluation of countermeasures in a DIFT mechanism against Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
  Lyon, France

• 2024

  Implementation and evaluation of countermeasures in a DIFT mechanism against Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Journée thématique sur les Attaques par Injection de Fautes (JAIF) / Thematic day on Fault Injection Attacks
  Rennes, France

  Exploring Fault Injection Attacks on CVA6 PMP Configuration Flow
  Kévin Quénéhervé, William Pensec, Philippe Tanguy, Rachid Dafali and Vianney Lapôtre
  Journée thématique sur les Attaques par Injection de Fautes (JAIF) / Thematic day on Fault Injection Attacks
  Rennes, France

  Automating Fault Injection through CABA Simulation for Vulnerability Assessment
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Journées Nationales du GDR SOC2 (GDR SOC2) / GDR SOC2 National Conference
  Toulouse, France

  Automating Fault Injection through CABA Simulation for Vulnerability Assessment
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  CYBERUS Spring School (CYBERUS)
  Lorient, France

  Characterizing Clock Glitching Attacks on CVA6 PMP Configuration Flow
  Kévin Quénéhervé, William Pensec, Philippe Tanguy, Rachid Dafali and Vianney Lapôtre
  CYBERUS Spring School (CYBERUS)
  Lorient, France

• 2023

  Unveiling the Invisible Threads: Dynamic Information Flow Tracking and the Intriguing World of Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Journée thématique sur les Attaques par Injection de Fautes (JAIF) / Thematic day on Fault Injection Attacks
  Gardanne, France

  When in-core DIFT faces fault injection attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  RISC-V Summit Europe (RISC-V Summit)
  Barcelone, Espagne

• 2022

  Protection of a processor with DIFT against physical attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  International Winter School on Microarchitectural Security (Mic-Sec Winter School)
  Paris, France

  Protection of a processor with DIFT against physical attacks
  William Pensec, Vianney Lapôtre and Guy Gogniat
  Assemblée Générale du Pôle SHARP - Lab-STICC (AG SHARP) / General Meeting of the SHARP pole
  Brest, France

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PhD thesis manuscript:

• 2024

  Enhanced Processor Defence Against Physical and Software Threats by Securing DIFT Against Fault Injection Attacks
  William Pensec
  PhD Thesis Defense
  Lorient, France