BROOKLYN, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Top
university students in cybersecurity research and policy
scholarship will present their papers at New
York University Tandon School of Engineering's Cyber
Security Awareness Week (CSAW), the largest student-run
cybersecurity competition in the world, November 10-12, 2016.
The Applied Research Competition is a prestigious contest for
graduate and doctoral level security researchers who have published
papers in the past year. The Policy Competition, in its third year,
challenges students to propose public policy solutions to
real-world computer security challenges. The CSAW Policy
Competition is organized by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity.
As CSAW expands this year to include on-site competition hubs in
the United Arab Emirates and at
the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, finalists in the
Applied Research Competition — one of six CSAW contests — will
compete at NYU Tandon in Brooklyn
and at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Ten papers on the application of security technology, the
implementation of security systems, or lessons learned made the
final round in the United
States.
CSAW Applied Research finalists, listed with the student author
presenting the work at CSAW, followed by other contributing authors
are:
Acing the IOC Game: Toward Automatic Discovery and Analysis
of Open-Source Cyber Threat Intelligence
Student Presenter:
Kan Yuan (Indiana University,
Bloomington)
Xiaojing Liao and Raheem Beyah (Georgia
Institute of Technology), Xiaofeng
Wang and Luyi Xing
(Indiana University, Bloomington),
Zhou Li (ACM member)
TrackMeOrNot: Enabling Flexible Control on Web
Tracking
Student Presenter: Wei
Meng (Georgia Institute of
Technology)
Byoungyoung Lee and Wenke Lee
(Georgia Institute of Technology),
Xinyu Xing (Pennsylvania State University)
Measuring and Mitigating AS-level Adversaries Against
Tor
Student Presenter: Oleksii
Starov (Stony Brook
University)
Risah Nithyanand (Stony Brook
University), Adva Zair and
Michael Schapira (Hebrew University Jerusalem), and Phillipa Gill (University
of Massachusetts)
Trusted Browsers for Uncertain Times
Student
Presenter: David Kohlbrenner
(University of California, San
Diego)
Hovav Shacham (University of California, San Diego)
Towards SDN-Defined Programmable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Security
Student Presenter: Sungmin
Hong (Texas A&M
University)
Robert Baykov, Lei Xu, Srinath Nadimpalli, and Guofei Gu (Texas A&M
University)
Hidden Voice Commands
Student Presenter: Tavish Vaidya (Georgetown
University)
Nicholas Carlini, Pratyush Mishra, and David Wagner (University of
California, Berkeley), Yuankai
Zhang, Micah Sherr,
Clay Shields, and Wenchao Zhou (Georgetown
University)
One Bit Flips, One Cloud Flops: Cross-VM Row Hammer Attacks
and Privilege Escalation
Student Presenter: Yuan Xiao (The
Ohio State University)
Xiaokuan Zhang, Yinqian Zhang, and Radu
Teodorescu (The Ohio State
University)
APISan: Sanitizing API Usages through Semantic
Cross-Checking
Student Presenter: Insu Yun (Georgia Institute
of Technology)
Yeongjin Jang, Taesoo Kim, and
Changwoo Min (Georgia Institute of Technology), Xujie Si and Mayur
Naik (University of
Pennsylvania)
A Principled Approach for ROP Defense
Student
Presenter: Rui Qiao (Stony Brook University)
R Sekar (Stony Brook University),
Mingwei Zhang (Intel Labs)
SPIFFY: Inducing Cost-Detectability Tradeoffs for Persistent
Link-Flooding Attacks
Student presenter: Min Suk Kang (Carnegie
Mellon University)
Virgil D. Gligor and Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon
University)
"We chose research finalists based on innovative ideas that top
industry security researchers thought might someday transform our
approach to securing their systems," said Damon McCoy, assistant
professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and CSAW Applied Research
Competition faculty mentor.
The five CSAW Policy Competition finalists are:
George Mason University School of
Law and George Washington University
School of Law
Expanding FTC Authority to Seek Consumer
Redress for Intangible Privacy Harms
Katie Morehead, Austin Mooney, and Julian Flamant
The Pennsylvania State
University
Incentivizing the Free Market Protection
of Consumer Information
Nicholas Pisciotta
University of Illinois College of
Law
Correcting Market Failure Through the Expansion of
Federal Trade Commission Authority
Magdala Boyer, Michael Burdi,
Matthew Chang, Kathleen Kramer, Matthew
Loar, Mark Nagel, and
Bradley Williams
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Improving Enterprise Security via a
Secure Software Toolkit
Matthew Dyas, Ankur Sundara, Arianna Osar, Shao Yie Soh, Arshia
Malkani, Eric Hennenfent,
John Paul Smith, and Malachi Loviska
United States Naval
Academy
Standardization, Certification, and
Enforcement: Leveraging Market Effects to Incentivize Data
Protection on a National Scale
Dennis Devey and Sydney Frankenberg
This year, students learned how market failures can lead to
consumer data breaches, and responded with a government policy
proposal to address these failures.
"The rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape has raised
questions about how much money companies should spend on data
security," said Kevin Kirby, a
third-year student at the NYU School of
Law and student leader of the CSAW Policy Competition. "We
asked our competitors for policy proposals that would ensure that
the true costs of data insecurity are allocated
appropriately."
The University of Illinois
and the United States Naval
Academy will return as finalists once again this year
after placing among the podium finishers in both 2014 and 2015. All
finalists will present a revised and expanded version of
their first-round proposal to a panel of experts who will
evaluate the feasibility of the authors' proposals, the creativity
of their ideas, and their understanding of the issues at play.
Sponsors for CSAW 2016 are: Gold Level — Palo Alto Networks,
Trend Micro, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Silver Level
— Bridgewater, Google, IBM, and
Kroll; Bronze Level — Bank of America, Facebook, Jefferies, Navy
Civilian Careers, NCC Group, Raytheon, Two Sigma; Supporting Level
— Bloomberg, Cubic, EY, Intel, National Security Agency, Optiv, The
Ruth & Jerome A. Siegel Foundation, Sandia National
Laboratories, and U.S. Secret Service; Contributing Level — ACSA,
Altera, Carnegie Mellon University and
Cigital.
For more information on CSAW, visit
https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu. Follow @CSAW_NYUTandon.
About the NYU Tandon School of
Engineering
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering
dates to 1854, when the New York
University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture as
well as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (widely
known as Brooklyn Poly) were founded. Their successor institutions
merged in January 2014 to create a
comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and
applied sciences, rooted in a tradition of invention, and
entrepreneurship and dedicated to furthering technology in service
to society. In addition to its main location in Brooklyn, NYU Tandon collaborates with other
schools within the country's largest private research university
and is closely connected to engineering programs in NYU Abu Dhabi
and NYU Shanghai. It operates business incubators in downtown
Manhattan and Brooklyn and an award-winning online graduate
program. For more information, visit
http://engineering.nyu.edu.
About the NYU Center for Cyber Security
The
NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) is an interdisciplinary research
institute dedicated to training the current and future generations
of cybersecurity professionals and to shaping the public discourse
and policy, legal, and technological landscape on issues of
cybersecurity. NYU CCS is collaboration between NYU School of Law, NYU Tandon School of
Engineering, and other NYU schools and
departments. For more information, visit
http://cyber.nyu.edu.
www.facebook.com/nyutandon
@nyupoly
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