Modern operating systems primarily use Discretionary Access Control (DAC) to protect files and other operating system resources. DAC mechanisms are more user-friendly than Mandat...
—This work combines two existing defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks DefCOM and Speak-up resulting in a synergistic improvement. DefCOM defense organize...
Mohit Mehta, Kanika Thapar, George C. Oikonomou, J...
Software monocultures are usually considered dangerous because their size and uniformity represent the potential for costly and widespread damage. The emerging concept of collabor...
Michael E. Locasto, Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos D....
The fast spreading worm is becoming one of the most serious threats to today’s networked information systems. A fast spreading worm could infect hundreds of thousands of hosts w...
Songqing Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Lei Liu, Xinwen Zhang
As the number of system vulnerabilities multiplies in recent years, vulnerability assessment has emerged as a powerful system security administration tool that can identify vulner...