Science of Security 2017 Best Poster Award
The HoTSoS Best Poster Award at the Hot Topics in Science of Security (HoTSoS) symposium recognizes cybersecurity research with scientific rigor, clarity of presentation, and global impact. It is to encourage scientists across multiple disciplines to address the fundamental problems of security in a principled manner. As a researcher, you and your team are helping to improve both the confidence we gain from scientific results and also the capacity and efficiency through which we address increasingly technical problems.
The winning paper, announced by Dr. Adam Tagert and Dr. Carl E. Landwehr, was "Is the Guardian Capable? A Routine Activity Theory Approach to Cyber Intrusion on Honeypot Systems" written by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland: Michael Becker, BA, Michel Cukier, PhD, and David Maimon, PhD. The poster looked at how adversaries behaved inside a botnet. Professor Michel Cukier accepted the award on behalf of the team.