TRUST Spring 2008 Conference: April 2-3, 2008

The Spring TRUST Conference was held April 2-3, 2008 at the Claremont Resort & Spa in Berkeley, California.

This event provided you with an opportunity to hear firsthand about the work of TRUST faculty and students-specifically activities that:

Advance a leading-edge research agenda to improve the state-of-the art in cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection;
Develop a robust education plan to teach the next generation of computer scientists, engineers, and social scientists; and
Pursue knowledge transfer opportunities to transition TRUST results to end users within industry and the government.

Conference Schedule

The conference was held April 2 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (followed by a dinner from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM) and April 3 from 9:00 AM to 12:45 PM (followed by a Poster Review by TRUST students). It consisted of technical talks given by TRUST faculty and students, a poster session of TRUST student research, and social/networking events.

The conference agenda is available here.

Conference Keynote Address

We were pleased to have as the conference Keynote Speaker Dr. David Wagner, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Wagner has extensive experience in computer security and cryptography and is known for discovering a wide variety of security vulnerabilities in various cellphone standards, 802.11 wireless networks, and other widely deployed systems.

As co-founder of the National Science Foundation ACCURATE (A Center for Correct Usable Reliable Auditable and Transparent Elections) center, Professor Wagner recently helped lead an initiative for the California Secretary of State to review electronic voting systems for certified use in California. This study constituted the most comprehensive security analysis of e-voting systems to date. Professor Wagner shared with us the details of this initiative, which identified serious shortcomings in the design of these systems and resulted in the establishment of a number of additional safeguards and procedural protections for California's voting systems.

Conference Venue

The conference took place at the Claremont Resort & Spa in Berkeley, California. Located in the Berkeley Hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay, the Claremont is a world-class resort that provides luxurious rooms and amemities, ample meeting space, and close proximity to San Francisco Bay area attractions. Located near the campus of UC Berkeley, the Claremont is approximately 10 miles from downtown San Francisco, 30 minutes from the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), and 20 minutes from the Oakland International Airport (OAK).

Conference Program and Presentations

The full Conference Program is available here.

Links to the conference presentations are provided below. PLEASE NOTE: Presentations are provided in PowerPoint format for convenience. Providing PowerPoint files makes it very easy and tempting to "borrow" the material. However, these presentations are owned by the author so please do not use this material without permission from the author.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

0900-1000 Keynote Speech-California Top-To-Bottom Review of Voting Systems

David Wagner (UC Berkeley)

1030-1100 Taking Advantage of Data Correlation to Control the Topology of Wireless Sensor Networks

Sergio A. Bermudez (Cornell University), Stephen B. Wicker (Cornell University)

1100-1130 A Distributed Intrusion Detection System for Resource-Constrained Devices in Ad Hoc Networks

Adrian P. Lauf (Vanderbilt University), Richard A. Peters (Vanderbilt University), William H. Robinson, (Vanderbilt University)
1130-1200 The Inherent Security of Routing Protocols in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks

Tanya Roosta (UC Berkeley), Sameer Pai (Cornell University), Phoebus Chen (UC Berkeley), Shankar Sastry (UC Berkeley), Stephen Wicker (Cornell University)

1330-1400 Deploying Distributed Real-time Healthcare Applications on Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Allen Y. Yang (UC Berkeley), Sameer Iyengar (UC Berkeley), Shanshan Jiang (Vanderbilt University), Philip J.Kuryloski (Cornell University), Yanchuan Cao (Vanderbilt University), Roozbeh Jafari (UT-Dallas), Yuan Xue (Vanderbilt University), Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley), Stephen Wicker (Cornell University), Shankar Sastry (UC Berkeley)

1400-1430 A Testbed for Secure and Robust SCADA Systems

Annarita Giani (UC Berkeley), Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University), Tanya Roosta (UC Berkeley), Aakash Shah (Carnegie Mellon University), Bruno Sinopoli (Carnegie Mellon University), Jon Wiley (Vanderbilt University)

1430-1500 Experimental Platform for Model-Integrated Clinical Information Systems

Janos Mathe (Vanderbilt University), Jan Werner (Vanderbilt University), Yonghwan Lee (Vanderbilt University), Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University), Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University), John Mitchell (Stanford University), Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University)

1530-1600 Security Breach Notification Laws: A "Race-to-the-Top"?

Deirdre K. Mulligan (UC Berkeley)

1600-1630 Detecting Data Leakage

Panagiotis Papadimitriou (Stanford University), Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)

1630-1700 Power Consumption Monitoring - An Emerging Threat to Privacy

Mikhail A. Lisovich (Cornell University), Stephen B. Wicker (Cornell University)

Thursday, April 3, 2008

0900-0930 Maelstrom: An Enterprise Continuity Protocol for Financial Data Centers

Ken Birman (Cornell University), Mahesh Balakrishnan (Cornell University), Tudor Marian (Cornell University), Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)

0930-1000 Write Markers for Probabilistic Quorum Systems

Michael G. Merideth (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael K. Reiter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

1000-1030 Flicker: An Execution Infrastructure for TCB Minimization

Jonathan M. McCune (Carnegie Mellon University), Bryan Parno (Carnegie Mellon University), Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael K. Reiter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Hiroshi Isozaki (Carnegie Mellon University, Toshiba Corp.)

1100-1130 Effective Testing via Symbolic Execution and Input Recombination

Daniel Dunbar (Stanford University), Christian Cadar (Stanford University), Peter Pawlowski (Stanford University), Dawson Engler (Stanford University)

1130-1200 Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing

Patrice Godefroid (Microsoft), Michael Y. Levin (Microsoft), David Molnar (UC Berkeley)

1200-1230 Securing Frame Communication in Browsers

Adam Barth (Stanford University), Collin Jackson (Stanford University), John C. Mitchell (Stanford University)

Additional Information

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact Sally Alcala, the TRUST Program Coordinator.