Papers

• Humans are dynamic. Our tools should be too. Innovations from the Anthropo- logical Study of Security Operations Centers. Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, Michael Wesch, Xinming Ou, John McHugh, Siva Raj Rajagopalan, and Alexandru G. Bardas. In IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, May/June Issue 2017.


• Turning Contradictions into Innovations or: How We Learned to Stop Whining and Improve Security Operations. Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, John McHugh, Xinming Ou, Michael Wesch, Alexandru G. Bardas, and Siva Raj Rajagopalan. In 12th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) in-cooperation with USENIX, June 2016.


• A Theory of Cyber Attacks - A Step Towards Analyzing MTD Systems. Rui Zhuang, Alexandru G. Bardas, Scott A. DeLoach, and Xinming Ou. In 2nd ACM Workshop on Moving Taget Defense (MTD), October 2015.


• Experimental Study of Fuzzy Hashing in Malware Clustering Analysis. Yuping Li, Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, Alexandru G. Bardas, Xinming Ou, Doina Caragea, Xin Hu, and Jiyong Jang. In 8th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), August 2015.


• A Human Capital Model for Mitigating Security Analyst Burnout. Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, Alexandru G. Bardas, Jacob Case, Xinming Ou, Michael Wesch, John McHugh, and Siva Raj Rajagopalan. In 2015 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) in-cooperation with USENIX, July 2015. Distinguished Paper Award


• Compiling Abstract Specifications into Concrete Systems – Bringing Order to the Cloud. Ian Unruh, Alexandru G. Bardas, Rui Zhuang, Xinming Ou, and Scott A. DeLoach. In 28th USENIX Conference on Large Installation System Administration (LISA), November 2014.


• Investigating the Application of Moving Target Defenses to Network Security. Rui Zhuang, Su Zhang, Alexandru G. Bardas, Scott A. DeLoach, Xinming Ou, and Anoop Singhal. In 6th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS), August 2013.


• Setting up and using a cyber security lab for education purposes. Alexandru G. Bardas and Xinming Ou. In Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Vol 28 Issues 5, April 2013.


• Classification of UDP Traffic for DDoS Detection. Alexandru G. Bardas, Loai Zomlot, Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou, S. Raj Rajagopalan, and Marc R. Eisenbarth. In 5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET), April 2012.

Patents

• Protecting Computing Assets from Resource Intensive Querying Attacks. Roland E. Dobbins, Alexandru G. Bardas, and Marc R. Eisenbarth. Patent Application US20150312272A1. October 29, 2015.

Refereed Posters

• Alexandru G. Bardas, Ian Unruh, Rui Zhuang, Xinming Ou, and Scott A. DeLoach. Compiling Abstract Specifications into Concrete Systems – Bringing Order to the Cloud. In USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), June 2014.


• Jason Jones, Marc R. Eisenbarth, Michael Barr, Alexandru G. Bardas. A Survey of Fuzzy Hashing Algorithms for Malware Clustering. In USENIX Security, August 2013.


• Alexandru G. Bardas, Loai Zomlot, Sathya Chandran Sundaramurthy, Xinming Ou, S. Raj Rajagopalan, and Marc R. Eisenbarth. Classification of UDP Traffic for DDoS Detection. In USENIX Security, August 2012.