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ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improved Port Knocking with Strong Authentication
It is sometimes desirable to allow access to open ports on a firewall only to authorized external users and present closed ports to all others. We examine ways to construct an au...
Rennie deGraaf, John Aycock, Michael J. Jacobson J...
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
User-Centered Security: Stepping Up to the Grand Challenge
User-centered security has been identified as a grand challenge in information security and assurance. It is on the brink of becoming an established subdomain of both security and...
Mary Ellen Zurko
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Verify Results of Network Intrusion Alerts Using Lightweight Protocol Analysis
We propose a method to verify the result of attacks detected by signature-based network intrusion detection systems using lightweight protocol analysis. The observation is that ne...
Jingmin Zhou, Adam J. Carlson, Matt Bishop
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Paranoid: A Global Secure File Access Control System
The Paranoid file system is an encrypted, secure, global file system with user managed access control. The system provides efficient peer-to-peer application transparent file ...
Fareed Zaffar, Gershon Kedem, Ashish Gehani
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Defensive Execution of Transactional Processes against Attacks
It is a well known problem that the attack recovery of a self-healing system rolls back not only malicious transactions, but also legitimate transactions that are dependent on the...
Meng Yu, Wanyu Zang, Peng Liu
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A User-level Framework for Auditing and Monitoring
Logging and auditing is an important system facility for monitoring correct system operation and for detecting potential security problems. We present an architecture for implemen...
Yongzheng Wu, Roland H. C. Yap
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Alert Correlation: A Concept Hierarchy Based Approach
With the increasing security threats from infrastructure attacks such as worms and distributed denial of service attacks, it is clear that the cooperation among different organiza...
Dingbang Xu, Peng Ning
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting Intra-enterprise Scanning Worms based on Address Resolution
Signature-based schemes for detecting Internet worms often fail on zero-day worms, and their ability to rapidly react to new threats is typically limited by the requirement of som...
David Whyte, Paul C. van Oorschot, Evangelos Krana...
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling
An Air Force evaluation of Multics, and Ken Thompson’s famous Turing award lecture “Reflections on Trusting Trust,” showed that compilers can be subverted to insert maliciou...
David Wheeler