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WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Tool for Securely Integrating Legacy Systems into a Distributed Environment
Legacy systems provide services that remain useful beyond the means of the technology in which they were originally implemented. Our Legacy Wrapper tool packages the services of a...
Timothy S. Souder, Spiros Mancoridis
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Channels: Runtime System Infrastructure for Security-Typed Languages
Security-typed languages (STLs) are powerful tools for provably implementing policy in applications. The programmer maps policy onto programs by annotating types with information ...
Boniface Hicks, Tim Misiak, Patrick McDaniel
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A control point for reducing root abuse of file-system privileges
We address the problem of restricting root’s ability to change arbitrary files on disk, in order to prevent abuse on most current desktop operating systems. The approach first...
Glenn Wurster, Paul C. van Oorschot
DISCEX
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards a Rigorous Definition of Information System Survivability
The computer systems that provide the information underpinnings for critical infrastructure applications, both military and civilian, are essential to the operation of those appli...
John C. Knight, Elisabeth A. Strunk, Kevin J. Sull...
GIS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a scalable model for location privacy
With the growth of wireless and mobile technologies, we are witnessing an increase in location-based services (LBS). Although LBS provide enhanced functionalities, they open up ne...
Nayot Poolsappasit, Indrakshi Ray