{"title":"Building Robust Distributed Systems and Network Protocols by Using Adversarial Testing and Behavioral Analysis","authors":"Md. Endadul Hoque, C. Nita-Rotaru","doi":"10.1109/SecDev.2016.038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SecDev.2016.038","url":null,"abstract":"We describe our experience over the past five years with building more robust distributed systems and network protocols by using adversarial testing and behavioral analysis. We describe the benefits and disadvantages of both approaches and the design of the tools we have built (Turret, Turret-W, SNAKE, and Chiron). We discuss how we applied them to byzantine-resilient state machine replication, wireless routing protocols, transport protocols, TLS, and IoT implementation of application-level protocols.","PeriodicalId":166406,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133249663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You are Not Your Developer, Either: A Research Agenda for Usable Security and Privacy Research Beyond End Users","authors":"Y. Acar, S. Fahl, Michelle L. Mazurek","doi":"10.1109/SecDev.2016.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SecDev.2016.013","url":null,"abstract":"While researchers have developed many tools, techniques, and protocols for improving software security, exploits and breaches are only becoming more frequent. Some of this gap between theoretical security and actual vulnerability can be explained by insufficient consideration of human factors, broadly termed usability, when developing these mechanisms. In particular, security mechanisms may be difficult to use, may conflict with other priorities, or may assume more security knowledge than users possess. For almost 20 years, the usable security community has investigated how to improve the usability of security tools and interfaces aimed at end users. More recently, the community has begun to apply similar techniques in the context of improving security tools — such as APIs and bug-finding software — aimed not at end users but at developers, whose security errors are magnified across all users of their products. In this paper, we review key lessons learned from usable security for end users and consider how to apply them in the context of developers. We propose a research agenda aimed at developing a high-quality, comprehensive literature for usable security for developers, including: investigating how to conduct reliable research in this context, understanding developers' attitudes, knowledge, and priorities, measuring the status quo, and developing improved tools and interventions in the future.","PeriodicalId":166406,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124242894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Auditing Code for Security Vulnerabilities with CodeSonar","authors":"David Vitek","doi":"10.1109/SecDev.2016.042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SecDev.2016.042","url":null,"abstract":"This tutorial will give a security-oriented introduction to CodeSonar, its program model, and its analyses. Attendees will be given access to a live CodeSonar instance, and will be shown how to explore a code base and review analysis results. Finally, a taste of how to extend CodeSonar will be given.","PeriodicalId":166406,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117072592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MOSAIC: A Platform for Monitoring and Security Analytics in Public Clouds","authors":"Alina Oprea, Ata Turk, C. Nita-Rotaru, O. Krieger","doi":"10.1109/SecDev.2016.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SecDev.2016.025","url":null,"abstract":"Public clouds have enabled a number of new computing-intensive applications (e.g., personalized medicine, real-time speech recognition and machine translation) that positively impact our daily lives. Compared to traditional computing environments, public clouds offer many economical advantages to both users and service providers. However, the shared, large-scale infrastructure of public clouds amplifies well-known security risks and introduces new security threats compared to traditional organizational networks or private clouds.","PeriodicalId":166406,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev)","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124451809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Piessens, Dominique Devriese, J. Mühlberg, Raoul Strackx
{"title":"Security Guarantees for the Execution Infrastructure of Software Applications","authors":"F. Piessens, Dominique Devriese, J. Mühlberg, Raoul Strackx","doi":"10.1109/SecDev.2016.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SecDev.2016.030","url":null,"abstract":"Software applications run on top of infrastructure consisting of hardware (processors, devices, communication networks, …) and software (operating systems, compilers, virtual machines, language runtimes, databases, …). In many cases, attacks against application software rely at least to some extent on aspects of that infrastructure, and in some cases vulnerabilities can be fixed by strengthening the infrastructure, as well as by patching the application code. This paper argues that it is beneficial for secure software development if the security guarantees offered by the execution infrastructure are explicit and precisely defined. More specifically, a developer writing source code that will be executed on the infrastructure should know what guarantees the infrastructure offers against what class of attackers. We survey existing proposals for precise statements of such security guarantees, and argue that the notion of full abstraction proposed by Martin Abadi as a correctness condition for secure implementation of abstractions is the key notion for specifying security guarantees of execution infrastructure. We give a brief overview of how full abstraction has already been used to specify and prove security for important building blocks of an execution infrastructure, and we sketch a research agenda identifying several interesting open research problems that, when solved, could contribute to a more secure design of execution infrastructure for distributed software applications, and to a better understanding of the security properties of these infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":166406,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev)","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127393340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Lapets, Nikolaj Volgushev, Azer Bestavros, Frederick Jansen, Mayank Varia
{"title":"Secure MPC for Analytics as a Web Application","authors":"A. Lapets, Nikolaj Volgushev, Azer Bestavros, Frederick Jansen, Mayank Varia","doi":"10.1109/SECDEV.2016.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECDEV.2016.027","url":null,"abstract":"Companies, government agencies, and other organizations have been analyzing data pertaining to their internal operations with great effect, such as in evaluating performance or improving efficiency. While each organization’s own data is valuable internally, aggregate data from multiple organizations can have value to the organizations themselves, policymakers, and society. Unfortunately, an organization’s data is often proprietary and confidential, and its release may be potentially deleterious to the organization’s interests. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) resolves this tension: aggregate data may be computed while protecting each contributor’s confidentiality. Theoretical constructs have been known for decades [1]–[3] and recent efforts aim to deliver them to end-users [4]–[6].","PeriodicalId":166406,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133640088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}