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Research on Automated Generation of Attack-Blocking Signatures

Related Publications

[1]  Online Signature Generation for Windows Systems
Lixin Li, Jim Just and R. Sekar
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December, 2009.
[2]  Practical Techniques for Regeneration and Immunization of COTS Applications
Lixin Li, Mark R. Cornwell, E. Hultman, Jim Just and R. Sekar
Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS) June, 2009.
[3]  Automatic Generation of Buffer Overflow Attack Signatures: An Approach Based on Program Behavior Models
Zhenkai Liang and R. Sekar
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December, 2005. (Supercedes Technical Report SECLAB-05-01 An Immune System Inspired Approach for Protection from Repetitive Attacks, March 2005.).
[4]  Fast and Automated Generation of Attack Signatures: A Basis for Building Self-Protecting Servers
Zhenkai Liang and R. Sekar
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) November, 2005. (Supercedes Technical Report SECLAB-05-02 Automated, Sub-second Attack Signature Generation: A Basis for Building Self-Protecting Servers, May 2005.).
[5]  Automatic Synthesis of Filters to Discard Buffer Overflow Attacks: A Step Towards Realizing Self-Healing Systems (Short Paper)
Zhenkai Liang, R. Sekar and Daniel DuVarney
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX) April, 2005.
Overview

Research Areas

Source-code analysis/transformation
Binary analysis/rewriting
Policy/Specification Languages
OS and Virtualization Techniques
Algorithms
Learning/anomaly detection
Formal methods/Foundations


Research Problems

Randomization/Memory Errors
Information flow analysis
Automated Exploit Defenses
Virtual Network Lab
Safe execution/attack recovery
Automated signature generation
Malware/Untrusted code defense
Intrusion/Anomaly detection
Fast packet matching
Policy generation tools


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