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It is so annoying to teach users (again and again) not to click and to keep clear of dangerous attachments. Yet, would it not be better if systems were immune from such fiendish assaults? How can we protect systems from PDF exploits and drive by downloads? This question has proven to be very, very difficult in practice. Antonio Barresi and Matthias Ganz are founders of the ETH Zurich spinoff Xorlab that strives to strike at the heart of this problem. For Swiss Cyber Storm, they will address it in a wide perspective and give us a general overview over modern means of mitigation against memory corruption attacks. After all, Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) are only the - known forms of defence in this regard. But what other techniques do exist to make the moat wider and the walls thicker? Our two speakers share a big interest in security problems that are closely linked to hardware, and namely Antonio has travelled far to talk about these issues.