'Benchmark crimes' under-state the true performance impact of security controls
By Richard Chirgwin 16 Jan 2018 A group of operating systems specialists believes sloppy benchmarking is harming security efforts, by making it hard to assess the likely performance impact of security countermeasures.
The researchers, a group of operating system specialists from the Netherlands and Australia, decided to take a look at the accuracy of security researchers' systems benchmark. As they explain in this paper at arXiv, security papers are littered with so-called “benchmarking crimes”.
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