Pub Crawl #22
Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers. Select the topic name to view the corresponding list of publications. Submissions and suggestions are welcome.
6LoWPAN, IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks, is an architecture intended to allow low power devices to participate in the Internet of Things. The IEEE specification allows for operation in either a secure or non-secure mode. For the Science of Security community, the creation of secure process in low power and ad hoc environments relates to the hard problems of resilience and composability. In the IoT context, it also relates to cyber physical system security.
Acoustic couplers such as modems bridge the gap between analog voice and electronic communications. At this interface, there is a security gap. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to security of cyber-physical systems and to the hard problems of resilience, human behavior, and scalability.
Acoustic Fingerprints 2018 (all)
Acoustic fingerprints can be used to identify an audio sample or quickly locate similar items in an audio database. As a security tool, fingerprints offer a modality of biometric identification of a user. Current research is exploring various aspects and applications, including the use of these fingerprints for mobile device security, antiforensics, use of image processing techniques, and client side embedding. For the Science of Security community, they are relevant to the problems of resiliency, human behavior and composability.
Cyber physical system security requires the need to build secure sensors and actuators. The research work here addresses the Science of Security hard problems of human behavior, resiliency, metrics and composability for actuator security.
Ad Hoc Network Security 2018 (all)
Security is an important research issue for ad hoc networks (MANETs). For the Science of Security community, this work relates to the hard problems of resilience, metrics, and compositionality.
As the power of digital signal processors has increased, adaptive filters are now routinely used in many devices as varied as mobile phones, printers, cameras, power systems, GPS devices and medical monitoring equipment. An adaptive filter uses an optimization algorithm in a system with a linear filter to adjust parameters that have a transfer function controlled by variable parameter. Because of the complexity of the optimization algorithms, most of these adaptive filters are digital filters. They are required for some applications because some parameters of the desired processing operation are not known in advance or are changing. The works cited here are articles about adaptive filtering as it relates to the Science of Security hard problems of scalability, resilience, and metrics.
Advanced Persistent Threats 2018 (all)
Advanced persistent threats are the subject of considerable research of interest to the Science of Security community. Research areas address the hard problems of human behavior, scalability, resilience, and metrics.
The need to understand adversarial behavior in light of new technologies is always important. Using models to understand their behavior is an important element in the Science of Security for addressing human behavior, scalability, resilience and metrics.
Virtualization Privacy 2018 (all)
Virtualization is seen as a means of enhancing security by maintaining a gap between the end user and the host. But privacy or virtual data is a growing problem, especially when the virtual system is in the Cloud. For the Science of Security community, virtualization privacy is related to the hard problems of resilience, composability, metrics, and privacy, an issue in human behavior.
Visible Light Communications Security 2018 (all)
Visible light communication (VLC) offers an unregulated and free light spectrum and potentially could be a solution for overcoming overcrowded radio spectrum, especially for wireless communication systems, and doing it securely. For the Science of Security community, this work is relevant to resiliency, scalability, and metrics.
Vulnerability Detection 2018 (all)
Vulnerability detection is a topic for which a great deal of research is being done. For the Science of Security community, vulnerability detection research is relevant to human behavior, resiliency, compositionality, and metrics.
The proliferation of personal wearable devices to track athletic performance and their adaptation and adaptation for health monitoring presents challenges for security. The small processing power and storage and the potential for compromise have stimulated research. For the Science of Security community, this research is relevant to the hard problems of human behavior and privacy, resiliency, and scalability.
Web Browser Security 2018 (all)
Web browsers are vulnerable to a range of threats. To the Science of Security community, they are often the first vector for attacks and are relevant to the issues of compositionality, resilience, predictive metrics, and human behavior.
Web caches offer a potential for mischief. With the expanded need for caching capability with the cloud and mobile communications, the need for more and better security has also grown. This research is relevant to the Science of Security hard problems of resilience, scalability, and metrics.
The creation of trust across networks is an important aspect of cybersecurity. Much of current research is focusing on graph theory as a means to develop a “web of trust.” For the Science of Security community, resiliency and composability are related hard problems.
Open devices such as PCs, tablets or smartphones are extremely vulnerable to attacks, since the attacker has complete control over the execution platform and the software implementation itself in the form of a white box attack. The goal of white-box encryption is to create a successful cryptographic algorithm so that assets remain secure even while under white-box attacks. For the Science of Security community, the subject is relevant to composability, resilience, and metrics.
Windows Operating System Security 2018 (all)
Operating system security is a component of resiliency, composability, and an area of concern for predictive metrics. This research focused on the Windows operating system.
Wireless Mesh Networks 2018 (all)
With more than 70 protocols vying for preeminence over wireless mesh networks, the security problem is magnified. The work cited here relates to the Science of Security hard problems of resiliency, metrics, and composability.
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- - Scalability and Composability: Develop methods to enable the construction of secure systems with known security properties from components with known security properties, without a requirement to fully re-analyze the constituent components.
- - Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration: Develop methods to express and enforce normative requirements and policies for handling data with differing usage needs and among users in different authority domains.
- - Security Metrics Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, and Deployment: Develop security metrics and models capable of predicting whether or confirming that a given cyber system preserves a given set of security properties (deterministically or probabilistically), in a given context.
- - Resilient Architectures: Develop means to design and analyze system architectures that deliver required service in the face of compromised components.
- - Understanding and Accounting for Human Behavior: Develop models of human behavior (of both users and adversaries) that enable the design, modeling, and analysis of systems with specified security properties.