marton bognar

postdoc @ KU Leuven

Publications

M-Step: A Single-Stepping Framework for Side-Channel Analysis on TrustZone-M
USENIX Security '26 + Black Hat USA '26
Cristiano Rodrigues, Marton Bognar, Sandro Pinto, Jo Van Bulck pdf · bibtex · github · CVE-2025-54764 · black hat
CyCoAnalysis: A Dataset of Cybersecurity Conference Metadata for Meta-Science and Policy Decisions
MetaCRiSP '26
Marton Bognar, Lieven Desmet, Frank Piessens pdf · bibtex · website
Control-Flow Balancing for Texas Instruments IPE
SysTEX '26
Marton Bognar, Alexander Croes, Hans Winderix, Jo Van Bulck pdf · dblp · bibtex · github

Hardware Cost Evaluation in Systems Security
ACM REP '25
Jesse De Meulemeester, Quinten Norga, Frank Piessens, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Marton Bognar pdf · dblp · bibtex · dataset · EVAL-HD
openIPE: An Extensible Memory Isolation Framework for Microcontrollers
EuroS&P '25
🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
Marton Bognar, Jo Van Bulck pdf · dblp · bibtex · github
Wait a Cycle: Eroding Cryptographic Trust in Low-End TEEs via Timing Side Channels
SysTEX '25
🏆 Best Paper with Artifacts Award
Ruben Van Dijck, Marton Bognar, Jo Van Bulck pdf · dblp · bibtex · github

AttackDefense Framework (ADF): Enhancing IoT Devices and Lifecycles Threat Modeling
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Tommaso Sacchetti, Marton Bognar, Jesse De Meulemeester, Benedikt Gierlichs, Frank Piessens, Volodymyr Bezsmertnyi, Maria Chiara Molteni, Stefano Cristalli, Arianna Gringiani, Olivier Thomas, Daniele Antonioli pdf · dblp · bibtex · github
Libra: Architectural Support for Principled, Secure and Efficient Balanced Execution on High-End Processors
CCS '24
🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
Hans Winderix, Marton Bognar, Lesly-Ann Daniel, Frank Piessens pdf · extended pdf · dblp · bibtex · github
Intellectual Property Exposure: Subverting and Securing Intellectual Property Encapsulation in Texas Instruments Microcontrollers
USENIX Security '24 + RuhrSec '25 and FOSDEM'26 (combined presentations with openIPE)
Marton Bognar, Cas Magnus, Frank Piessens, Jo Van Bulck pdf · dblp · bibtex · github · security advisory
Architectural Mimicry: Innovative Instructions to Efficiently Address Control-Flow Leakage in Data-Oblivious Programs
S&P '24
Hans Winderix, Marton Bognar, Job Noorman, Lesly-Ann Daniel, Frank Piessens pdf · dblp · bibtex · gitlab

ProSpeCT: Provably Secure Speculation for the Constant-Time Policy
USENIX Security '23
Lesly-Ann Daniel, Marton Bognar, Job Noorman, Sébastien Bardin, Tamara Rezk, Frank Piessens pdf · extended pdf · dblp · bibtex · github
ShowTime: Amplifying Arbitrary CPU Timing Side Channels
AsiaCCS '23 + RuhrSec '23
🏆 CSAW '23 Europe Applied Research Competition Finalist
Antoon Purnal, Marton Bognar, Frank Piessens, Ingrid Verbauwhede pdf · dblp · bibtex · github · presentation (RuhrSec '23) · poster
MicroProfiler: Principled Side-Channel Mitigation through Microarchitectural Profiling
EuroS&P '23
Marton Bognar, Hans Winderix, Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens pdf · dblp · bibtex · github
Proteus: An Extensible RISC-V Core for Hardware Extensions
RISC-V Summit Europe '23
Marton Bognar, Job Noorman, Frank Piessens pdf · bibtex · github · poster

Mind the Gap: Studying the Insecurity of Provably Secure Embedded Trusted Execution Architectures
S&P '22
Marton Bognar, Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens pdf · dblp · bibtex · github · presentation · poster

Artifact Evaluation Chair: SysTEX '26
Program Committee member:
- USENIX Security '26
- EuroS&P '25 (🏆), '26
- ACM REP '26
- MetaCRiSP '26
- ACSAC '25
Artifact Evaluation Committee member:
- USENIX Security '25 (🏆)
- NDSS '25
- SysTEX '24
External reviewer: SysTEX '24
Subreviewer: S&P '21, '24; CCS '21, '25; ESORICS '21; SEED '21; EuroS&P '22
Reviewer: Computers & Security