Security Reading Group

Summer 2006

[Overview] [Schedule] [Reading List] [Links]

Overview

Time: Tuesday 1:00pm-2:00pm, Room: ISIS large conference room.

Web: http://vanets.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~xue/security_readinggroup.html

Description:

The reading group aims at understanding the recent research results in the field of computer and network security and stimulating an exchange of new ideas. The papers will be selected from top conferences and journals in the field of security, operating system, embedded system, distributed system, hardware, network, including but not limited to: CCS, SSP, Security, SOSP/OSDI, HotOS, SigComm, MobiCom, SenSys, ISCA, MICRO, etc. Each participant needs to read the paper before the meeting. In each meeting, one student will make a presentation (30-40 minute) and lead the discussion of one paper. 

Schedule

Date Paper Presenter
05/16/06 Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu, "Collapsar: A VM-Based Architecture for Network Attack Detention Center", in Proc. of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '04) Jan Werner
05/23/06 Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Architecture for Embedded Systems, Mr. Jahn A. Luke (AFRL/IFTA), Mr. W. Mark Vanfleet (NSA), Dr. Ben Calloni (Lockheed Martin) (Slides available in Groove)

References:

MILS:Architecture for High-Assurance Embedded Computing

High Assurance Security/Safety for Deeply Embedded, Real-time Systems, W. Beckwith, W. Vanfleet, L. MacLaren, Embedded Systems Conference 2004.

A Multi-layered Approach to Security in High Assurance Systems

Matthew Eby
05/30/06 K.W. Lye and J.M. Wing, “Game Strategies in Network Security,” International Journal of Information Security, February 2005. Taojun Wu
06/06/06 Terra: A Virtual Machine-Based Platform for Trusted Computing by Garfinkel et al, SOSP 2003. Janos Mathe
06/13/06

BenAmor, N., Benferhat, S., and ElOuedi, Z.  "Naive Bayes vs  Decision Trees in Intrusion Detection Systems", In The 19th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing - SAC 2004.

Christina Lee

Suggested Paper List

(This list will keep updating)

bullet Feng Qin, Joe Tucek, Jagadeesan Sundaresan and Yuanyuan Zhou, Rx: Treating bugs as allergies---a safe method to survive software failure, in Proc. of SOSP'05. 
bullet Andrew Whitaker, Marianne Shaw, and Steven D. Gribble, Scale and Performance in the Denali Isolation Kernel, in Proc. of OSDI '02.
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Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauery, Ian Pratt, Andrew Wareld, Xen and the Art of Virtualization, in Proc. of SOSP '03.

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Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu, "Collapsar: A VM-Based Architecture for Network Attack Detention Center", in Proc. of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '04).

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Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu, Helen J. Wang, Eugene H. Spafford, "Virtual Playgrounds for Worm Behavior Investigation", in Proc. of the 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID'05).

bullet Flexible OS Support and Applications for Trusted Computing by Garfinkel, Rosenblum, and Boneh, 9th Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HOTOS-IX), 2003
bullet Terra: A Virtual Machine-Based Platform for Trusted Computing by Garfinkel et al, SOSP 2003.
bullet API-Level Attacks on Embedded Systems by Bond and Anderson, IEEE Computer, Oct 2001.
bullet Understanding Data Lifetime via Whole System Simulation by Jim Chow, Ben Pfaff, Tal Garfinkel, Kevin Christopher, and Mendel Rosenblum. 2004 Usenix Security Symposium.
bullet Building the IBM 4758 Secure Coprocessor by Dyer et al, IEEE Computer, Oct 2001.
bullet A Processor Architecture Defense Against Buffer Overflow Attacks by McGregor et al, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003), August 2003.
bullet Hardware and Binary Modification Support for Code Pointer Protection From Buffer Overflow by Tuck, Calder, and Verghese. MICRO 2004.
bullet Design and implementation of the AEGIS single-chip secure processor using physical random functions Suh, G.E.; O'Donnell, C.W.; Ishan Sachdev; Srinivas Devadas; Computer Architecture, 2005. ISCA '05. Proceedings. 32nd International Symposium on, 4-8 June 2005 Page(s):25 - 36.
bullet Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Architecture for Embedded Systems, Mr. Jahn A. Luke (AFRL/IFTA), Mr. W. Mark Vanfleet (NSA), Dr. Ben Calloni (Lockheed Martin). (PPT available in the internal groove system)
bullet A Language-Based Approach to Security, Fred B. Schneider, Greg Morrisett, and Robert Harper.
bullet Embedded System Security, Philip Koopman, Embedded Computing, July 2004.
bullet K.W. Lye and J.M. Wing, “Game Strategies in Network Security,” International Journal of Information Security, February 2005.
bullet Kocher, P.; Lee, R.; McGraw, G.; Raghunathan, A.; Ravi, S., Security as a new dimension in embedded system design, IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2004.

Links

Journals/Magazines

Acronym Journal/Magazie Name
TOCS ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
ToSN ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
TPDS IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Conferences/Workshops

Acronym Conference Title
Security Usenix Security Symposium
SSP IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
CCS ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
HotNets ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
HotOS Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
HPDC IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing 
ICDCS IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
ICNP IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
INFOCOM IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications 
IPSN IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
MOBICOM ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
MobiSys ACM The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
NSDI Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
OSDI Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
SIGCOMM ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures and Protocols for Computer Communication
SOSP The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles 
WORLDS Usenix Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems
SenSys ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
MICRO International Symposium on Microarchitecture
ISCA International Symposium on Computer Architecture
HPCA International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture

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