Method and device for monitoring an unauthorized memory access of a computing device, in particular in a motor vehicle

A method and a device for monitoring an unauthorized memory access to a predetermined memory area in a computing device are described, in which a monitoring medium is provided, having at least one sensor medium, which is set up for the purpose of recognizing an event of the computing device, and at least one recognition medium, which is set up for the purpose of tracking the behavior of the event recognized by the sensor medium, the monitoring medium being integrated into a sequence pattern on the computing device, and the monitoring medium being set up for the purpose of monitoring the sequence pattern at its runtime, in that memory accesses to a memory address or an address range are detected by the monitoring medium as events.