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Seminars

 

The Security Lab Seminars are a forum for individual presentations of current research efforts. Both graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend. The seclab-seminar mail list will let you know each week what time the talk will start.

We are currently working on the fall seminar schedule. Please contact us if you would like to give a talk.

Previous Seminars

2004

Sept. 22 , 2004
Senthil Cheetancheri
"Automated reasoning in co-operated cyber defense"  
July 27 , 2004
"NVisionIP and VisFlowConnect: Two Interactive Tools for Visualizing Network Flow for Security"
July 9, 2004
Dipanker Dasgupta
"Biological Immune System as a Defense System: Lessons Learned"
July 7, 2004
Matt Bishop
"Teaching Context in Information Security"
June 9, 2004
Terry Brugger
"Data Mining for Network Intrusion Detection"  
May 21 , 2004
Philip Chan, F.I.T.
"Learning Models for Anomaly Detection"
May 12 , 2004
Yihua Liao
"Intrusion Detection and Response: A Game Theoretic Perspective"  
May 5 , 2004
Greg Witttel
"Attacking Statistical Spam Filters"
April 28 , 2004
Adam Carlson
"The UCD/Promia Honeynet Project"
April 21 , 2004
Jimmy Zhou
"Using Capability Attack Model for Correlating IDS Alerts"
April 7 , 2004
Tom Ristenpart
"Time Synchronization of Aggregated Heterogeneous Logs"
Mar. 24 , 2004
Tye Stallard
"Fault Tolerance"
Mar. 10 , 2004
Todd Heberlein
"Attack Graphs: Identifying Critical Vulnerabilities Within an Organization"
Feb. 25 , 2004
Soon Tee Teoh
"Three visual ways to improve security"  
Feb. 11 , 2004
Jed Crandall
"Minos: Architectural Support for Securing Commodity Software"  
Feb. 4 , 2004
Matt Bishop
"Using Computers to Vote in Elections"
Jan. 21, 2004
Ood Limprasittiporn
"Knowledge Based Route Flap Damping Analysis Tool"
Jan 13, 2004
Hervé Debar
"Intrusion Alert Correlation and Sensor Architecture"

2003

Dec. 3 , 2003
Brian Toone
"Trust Models for Distributed Information Systems"
Nov. 12, 2003
Ebrima Ceesay
Melissa Danforth
DDai Nojiri
Discussion of 3 papers  
Nov. 5 , 2003
Dimitri DeFigueiredo
"MagicThanks - Linking Musicians to their Songs"
Oct. 29, 2003
Prof. Kyesang Lee
"An Overview of IKEv2"
Oct. 15, 2003
Ivan Balepin
"Summer Internship at Microsoft"  
Oct. 8, 2003
Raymond Centeno & Dai Nojiri
"What I Did This Summer"
(internships)
Oct. 1 , 2003
Matt Bishop & Jeff Rowe
"Securing the Security Lab"
Sept. 24 , 2003
Melissa Danforth
"Adaptive Intrusion Detection"
Sept. 17 , 2003
Matt Bishop
"Vulnerabilities Analysis"
Sept. 10 , 2003
1. Jimmy Zhou
2. Tao Song
1. "A Knowledge/Capability Attack Model and its Application in NIDS Alert Correlation"
2. "Reasoning about Network Intrusion Detection Systems"
1. [abstract]
2. [abstract]
Aug. 20 , 2003
1. Akshay Aggarwal
2. Na Tang

1. "EarlyBird : A worm detection system"
2. "Solving Inverse Problems via Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery"

[2. abstract]
[ 2. slides]

July 30, 2003
1. Poornima Balasubramanyam &
2. Henry Tseng
1. "An Overview of Security Challenges in Mobile Adhoc Networks"
2. "A Specification-Based Intrusion Detection System for AODV"

[slides]

[slides]

July 23, 2003
Todd Heberlein
 
July 9, 2003
Tao Song
"Formal reasoning detection rules of specification-based IDS"
May 28 , 2003
Souhwan Jung
"Security standards for Internet multimedia communications and their impact on QoS"
May 7 , 2003
Mark Heckman
"Requires/Provides Predicates for Clustering Alerts in a Commercial IDS"
April 17, 2003
Dan Massey
"Securing the Domain Name System: Protocol Design and Lessons Learned"
April 2, 2003
Fan Zhao
"RBWA: An Efficient Random-Bit Window-based Authentication Protocol"
Mar. 12 , 2003
Soon Tee Teoh
"Visualization Tools for BGP Stability Analysis"
Mar. 5 , 2003
Tao Song
"Verification of Intrusion Detection Systems"
Feb. 26 , 2003
Nick Weaver - Silicon Defense
"How Many Ways to Own the Internet:
Towards Viable Worm Defenses"
Feb. 19 , 2003
Ke Zhang
"On Detection of Anomalous Routing Dynamics in BGP"
Feb. 12 , 2003
Fiona Wong
"TCPopera"
Jan. 29, 2003
Eric Haugh
"Testing C Programs for Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities"
Jan. 22, 2003
Harald Held
"A Decomposition Algorithm for Planning the Interdiction of Stochastic Networks"
Jan. 15, 2003
Vicentiu Neagoe
"Using Deception for Computer Information Security"
[slides]

2002

Dec. 4, 2002
Steven Templeton
"Anomaly Assessment of IDS Alerts"
Nov. 20 , 2002
Wes Hygaki - Symantec
"Internet Security – An Industry Perspective"
Nov. 13 , 2002
Glen Nuckolls
"Certifying Data from Multiple Sources: Making Price Comparison Honest"
Nov. 6 , 2002
Jedidiah Crandall
"Hiding Patterns in IP Address Allocation to Prevent the Rapid Spread of Internet Worms"
Oct. 30, 2002
Matt Bishop
"Electronic Recordation"
Oct. 23, 2002
Marcus Tylutki
"Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using a Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller"
Oct. 16, 2002
Guillermo Marro
"Vulnerabilities in Some Data Link Layer Protocols"
Oct. 9, 2002
Tye Stallard
"Automated Analysis for Computer Forensics"

[abstract] [pdf] [sxi slides]

Oct. 2, 2002
Jeff Rowe & Felix Wu
Overview of research topics and projects in security lab  
Sept. 4, 2002
Yihua Liao
"Machine Learning Techniques for Mitigating Insider Threat"
July 17, 2002
Brennen Reynolds
"Deploying IP Telephony in an Enterprise and the Vulnerabilities that Come
With It"
June 19, 2002
Dennis Heimbigner
"A Pie of P-Baked Security Ideas"
May 29 , 2002
Steven Templeton
"Detecting Spoofed Packets"
May 15 , 2002
Marcus Tylutki
"A Model to Determine and Configure Sensor Coverage"
May 8 , 2002
David Peterson
"A Flexible Containment Mechanism for Executing Untrusted Code"
Apr. 24, 2002
Dennis Heimbigner
A Tamper-Resistant Programming Language
Apr. 17, 2002
Melissa Danforth
"Immune System Model for Detecting Web Server Attacks"
Apr. 10, 2002
Felix Wu
"MOAS Attacks on BGP"  
Mar. 13, 2002
Edouard Bugnion (VMWare)
"Building Security Solutions Using Virtual Machines"
[abstract.pdf] [slides]
Mar. 6, 2002
Jeff Rowe
"An Overview of Intrusion Detection"
Feb. 27, 2002
David Blank, Christina Chung (Verity)
"Knowledge Management Tools for Intrusion Detection"
Feb. 20, 2002
Yihua Liao
"Learning Program Behavior for Intrusion Detection"
Feb. 13, 2002
Dennis Heimbigner
"Intrusion Management Using Architecture and Configuration Models".
Feb. 6, 2002
Karl Levitt
"Initial Thoughts Toward a Major R&D Effort for Critical Infrastructure Protection"  
Jan. 30, 2002
Khaled Labib
"Real-Time Network-Based Intrusion Detection Using Self-Organizing Maps"
Jan. 23, 2002
Mark Heckman
'Formal Methods in Computer Security? The Very Idea!"
Jan. 9, 2002
Todd Heberlein
Storyteller  

2001

Dec. 5, 2001
Dennis Heimbigner
Bend, Don't Break: Using Reconfiguration to Achieve Survivability
Nov. 14, 2001
Steven Templeton

A "Jigsaw" based distributed IDS

 
Nov. 7, 2001
Tye Stallard
Data Forensics: Analyzing the Tracks of an Intruder
Oct. 31, 2001
Matt Bishop
Security Properties, Vulnerabilities and Sanitization
Oct. 24, 2001
Ricardo Anguiano
A Static Analysis Technique for the Detection of TOCTTOU Vulnerabilities

[abstract pdf] [Power Point] [slides html]

Oct. 17, 2001
Jim Alves-Foss
A Distributed Firewall Architecture

[Abstract pdf] [Power Point]

Oct. 3, 2001
Matt Bishop
Organization Meeting
 

2000

April 12, 2000
Karl Levitt
Organization Meeting Notes

1999

Sept. 1, 1999
Matt Bishop
Vulnerabilities Analysis
PowerPoint me/wwwresearch/seclab/images File
June 30, 1999
Round Robin
Seclab Research Update
June 9,  1999
Paul McNabb
TBA
 
June 2, 1999
Scott Miller
Corporate Network Security Policies
(Notes)
May 26, 1999
Jason Schatz
Automated Response
 (Notes)
May 19, 1999
 Ricardo Anguiano
The Eternity Service
 (Notes)
THURSDAY
May 13, 1999
Steven Cheung
Protecting Domain Name Systems (DNS)
(Notes/
Slides PS/PDF
May 5, 1999
Christina Chung
User Profiling in Relational Database Systems 
(Notes/Slides
April 28, 1999
Jim Hoagland
SCIPAD
(Notes/Slides)
April 21, 1999
Jeff Rowe
Future of Security Lab
 (Notes)
April 14, 1999
Tom Goldfinger
Models for User Profiling
 (Notes)
March 17,  1999
Matt Bishop
Organizational Seminar for Spring Quarter
 
March 10, 1999
Dick Walters
 (Notes)
March 3, 1999
John Hughes
Linden Paper:  "Operating System Structures to Support Security and Reliable Software" (Paper)
(Notes)
(Slides)
February 3, 1999
Premkumar Devanbu
Stacks and Queues on Hostile Platforms
 (Slides)
January 27, 1999
Keith Herold
Karger Paper:  "MULTICS Security Evaluation:  Vulnerability Analysis" (Paper)
 (Slides)
January 20, 1999
Jim Hoagland
ADAGE
(Notes)
(Slides)
January 13, 1999
Matt Bishop
Organizational Meeting
(None)

1998

Jan. 12, 1998
Matt Bishop
Malicious Code
Jan. 20, 1998
Anna Mell
Discussion of recruiting efforts for the Security Lab
Jan. 26, 1998
Peter Mell
Response to Attacks
Feb. 2, 1998
Steven Templeton
Firewalls-Do they really work?
Feb. 9, 1998
Steven Samarodin
Mobile Code
Feb. 23, 1998
Scott Miller
Authentication Schemes
Mar. 2, 1998
Nick Puketza
Key Management
Mar. 9, 1998
Chris Wee
-
Mar. 16, 1998
Jim Hoagland
Policy
April 8, 1998
Dan Zerkle
green eggs and SPAM 
April 15, 1998
Raymond Yip
"Do Intrusion Detection Systems really work?"
April 22, 1998
David O'Brien
SSH - Secure Shell along with S/Key
April 29, 1998
Anna Mell
Computer Security Game Show
May 6, 1998
Jeff Rowe
Discussion of Commercial Intrusion Detection Systems
May 20, 1998
Steven Samorodin
Discussion of Mobile Programs
May 27, 1998
Scott Miller
"Is monitoring ethical?"
June 3, 1998
Matt Bishop
Take-Grant Protection Model
June 10, 1998
Christina Chung
Current Events
June 17, 1998
Dr. David Hill
Medical Informatics
November 4, 1998
Matt/Karl
Organizational Meeting 
(Notes)
November 11, 1998
Nick Puketza
WATCHERS - Detecting Disruptive Routers:  A Distributed Network 
(Notes)
November 18, 1998
Steven Templeton
Anderson Reports:  "Computer Security Technology Planning Study" (Paper) and "Computer Security Threat Monitoring and Surveillance" (Paper)
(Notes)
November 25, 1998
Matt Bishop
Bell Paper:  "Secure Computer System:  Unified Exposition and Multics Interpretation" (Paper)
(Notes)
December 2, 1998
Jeff Rowe
Myers Paper: "Subversion:  The Neglected Aspect of Computer Security" (Paper)
(Notes)
December 4, 1998
Michael Clifford
The Solar Trust Model:  Authentication without Limitation  
December 9, 1998
Thomas Aura
Delegation of Certificates
(Notes)

 

General Principal of Security: Be paranoid!