Projects:
This list provides an introduction to our past projects as well as ongoing efforts. Links to
specific project webpages are provided.
Network Security & Survivability
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SOS: Secure Overlay Services
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SOS and WebSOS. SOS is a network overlay mechansim designed to counter the threats posed by
Denial of Service attacks. SOS has been extended to provide WebSOS, a mechanism for protecting
web servers from DoS.
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DNAD: Distributed Network Anomaly Detection
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Distributed Intrusion Detection seeks to
identify global network threats through a
cooperative framework and collaborative distributed mechanisms.
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P2PID: Peer-to-Peer Intrusion Detection
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P2P Intrusion Detection seeks to
provide a platform for exchanging alert and other security
critical information in a collaborative network of untrusted
hosts.
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Software & System Assurance
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Autonomic Software Patching
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The network worm vaccine architecture is a system that is designed to automatically
patch and defend systems and networks under attack by worms or other network threats.
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JDBC SQL Randomization (PachyRand)
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PachyRand is an open-source extension
to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver that implements SQL randomization
in order to counter SQL injection attacks.
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Operating Systems
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FlowOS
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The FlowOS project turns the operating system into a switch or
signalling mechanism for data the needs to be processed at high (line) speed.
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CamouflageFS
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CamouflageFS is a cryptographic filesystem that employs a longer effective key
length to increase confidentiality while reducing the performance cost of using this longer key.
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Access Control & Security Management
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GRIDLOCK
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The GRIDLOCK project aims to ease the burden of security management by
unifying the concepts of network, host, and application access control.
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