The Dutch Cyber Security Research Award (DCSRA) is presented annually for the most relevant PhD thesis defended in the previous year on a cyber security topic. The 2015 edition was awarded to a thesis under the working title Out of Control, which addressed control-flow integrity and related defence techniques against memory corruption attacks.
Background
The award was presented at the closing of the NCSRA Symposium 2015. The jury highlighted the methodological rigour of the thesis and the relevance of its prototype implementation for systems that are widely deployed in production environments.
Original content is not fully available; summary based on metadata and the public NCSRA programme of that year.