News and Events

Openings for Research Assistant and other positions at Secure Systems Lab

We are always on the look out for smart and motivated students. Several new openings for RA positions are available for Ph.D. students, as well as exceptional M.S. students.

We are also interested in visiting researchers whose research backgrounds closely match ours. For exceptional candidates, we may be able to consider post-doctoral appointments.

Secure Systems Lab receives Prestigious DoD Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Grant

Department of Defense awards 5-year, $8M grant to a multi-university team consisting of faculty from Berkeley, Illinois, Harvard, Stony Brook and Virginia for a new project aimed at protecting applications on untrusted platforms. This project targets the growing and unmanageable problem of malicious software, including viruses, rootkits, and bots. The central challenge addressed by the project will be that of protecting applications running on a potentially compromised platform. The project will develop hardware, languages, and architectures that enable applications to be protected from a hostile operating system. The Stony Brook component of this research will be carried out in the Secure Systems Laboratory by R. Sekar and his students. For more information, see DoD announcement and list of 2009 MURI awards.

Secure Systems Lab receives NSF Cyber Trust (Team) grant for Proactive Malware Defense

National Science Foundation awards a 4-year, $1M grant to Stony Brook University for a new project on proactive integrity protection. This project, led by Computer Science faculty R. Sekar, Scott Stoller and C.R. Ramakrishnan, will develop solutions to the rapidly escalating malware problem. For more information, see NSF announcement and our research on untrusted code defense

Stony Brook Hosts Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) 2009

The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. This year, CSF will be held in Port Jefferson, with Scott Stoller of Stony Brook serving as the General Chair. more ...