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- Security Monitoring using Sensor
Networks
Wireless sensor networks have tremendous
promise for monitoring a region, such as a border or a secured
facility. In this project, we are developing comprehensive solutions
to make such monitoring effective against powerful, adaptive
attackers. This includes defenses against such problems as network
jamming attacks, probing and evasive intruders, and wide-scale node
compromise. By addressing these issues together, we will be able to
create a network architecture that combines our solutions and makes
security monitoring with sensor networks an effective and powerful
tool.
- Software Security Testing
- Anonymous Communications
Traffic analysis can expose a great deal about sensitive
relationships; anonymous communications system are a promising
technology to stop this kind of information leakage. We focus on
ways to stop long-term attacks against these systems, as well as the
application of anonymity to wireless and ad-hoc networks.
- Security in sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks have great potential, but they can be
challenging to secure due to resource constraints and node
compromise. Major topics include mechanisms for fundamental security
protocols (e.g., key management and broadcast authentication),
protection of critical sensor network services (e.g., routing, data
management, localization, time synchronization, clustering), and the
detection of replicant nodes.
- Incentives in Security and
Privacy
Most security problems are posed as black
and white issues, but many times, models based on incentives are
more approprate. In this work, we find areas in which incentives can
be added to systems to enhance their security properties, and we use
game-theoretic analysis to understand how incentives play out in
existing systems. Research includes incentives for worm detection,
anonymous communications, and digitial rights management.
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