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Publications in Automated Exploit Defenses

[1]  Online Signature Generation for Windows Systems
Lixin Li, Jim Just and R. Sekar
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December, 2009.
[2]  Practical Techniques for Regeneration and Immunization of COTS Applications
Lixin Li, Mark R. Cornwell, E. Hultman, Jim Just and R. Sekar
Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS) June, 2009.
[3]  An Efficient Black-box Technique for Defeating Web Application Attacks
R. Sekar
ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS) February, 2009.
[4]  Anomalous Taint Detection (Extended Abstract)
Lorenzo Cavallaro and R. Sekar
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) September, 2008. (Full version available as Technical Report SECLAB08-06).
[5]  Data Space Randomization
Sandeep Bhatkar and R. Sekar
Detection of Intrusions, Malware and Vulnerability Analysis (DIMVA) July, 2008.
[6]  Address-Space Randomization for Windows Systems
Lixin Li, Jim Just and R. Sekar
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December, 2006.
[7]  Taint-Enhanced Policy Enforcement: A Practical Approach to Defeat a Wide Range of Attacks
Wei Xu, Sandeep Bhatkar and R. Sekar
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) August, 2006. (An earlier version appeared as Technical Report SECLAB-05-06, November 2005. Also supercedes Technical Report SECLAB-05-05 A Unified Approach for Preventing Attacks Exploiting a Range of Software Vulnerabilities, August 2005, and Technical Report SECLAB-05-04 Practical dynamic taint analysis for countering input validation attacks on web applications, May 2005, [PDF]).
[8]  Automatic Generation of Buffer Overflow Attack Signatures: An Approach Based on Program Behavior Models
Zhenkai Liang and R. Sekar
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December, 2005. (Supercedes Technical Report SECLAB-05-01 An Immune System Inspired Approach for Protection from Repetitive Attacks, March 2005.).
[9]  Fast and Automated Generation of Attack Signatures: A Basis for Building Self-Protecting Servers
Zhenkai Liang and R. Sekar
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) November, 2005. (Supercedes Technical Report SECLAB-05-02 Automated, Sub-second Attack Signature Generation: A Basis for Building Self-Protecting Servers, May 2005.).
[10]  Efficient Techniques for Comprehensive Protection from Memory Error Exploits
Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar and Daniel DuVarney
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) August, 2005.
[11]  Address Obfuscation: An Efficient Approach to Combat a Broad Range of Memory Error Exploits
Sandeep Bhatkar, Daniel DuVarney and R. Sekar
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) August, 2003.
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Source-code analysis/transformation
Binary analysis/rewriting
Policy/Specification Languages
OS and Virtualization Techniques
Algorithms
Learning/anomaly detection
Formal methods/Foundations


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Randomization/Memory Errors
Information flow analysis
Automated Exploit Defenses
Virtual Network Lab
Safe execution/attack recovery
Automated signature generation
Malware/Untrusted code defense
Intrusion/Anomaly detection
Fast packet matching
Policy generation tools


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