My research is focused on the following areas:

• Large Systems Security & Survivability
  
• Intrusion Detection Systems
  
• Privacy and Anonymity
• Security for MANETs and Mobile Devices

Teaching:

    Spring 2012: ISA 673, Operating Systems' Security

Selected Recent Publications:

• SecureSwitch: BIOS-Assisted Isolation and Switch between Trusted and
  Untrusted Commodity OSes Kun Sun, Jiang Wang, Fengwei Zhang and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the Proceedings of the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System
  Security Symposium, NDSS 2012, San Diego, California, 5-8 February 2012.
  Impact Factor: 2.60 (Acceptance Rate: 46/258 – 17.8%).
  
  
• Cross-domain Collaborative Anomaly Detection: So Far Yet So Close
  Nathaniel Boggs, Sharath Hiremagalore, Angelos Stavrou, Salvatore J. Stolfo.
  In the Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Recent
  Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID). September 2011, Menlo Park, CA.
  (Acceptance rate: 20/87 - 23%).
  
  
• The MINESTRONE Architecture: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis
  Techniques for Software Security
  Angelos D. Keromytis, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Junfeng Yang, Angelos Stavrou,
  Anup Ghosh, Dawson Engler, Marc Dacier, Matthew Elder, and Darrell Kienzle.
  In the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Systems Security (SysSec).
  July 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  
  
• DoubleGuard: Detecting Intrusions In Multi-tier Web Applications
  Meixing Le, Angelos Stavrou, Brent ByungHoon Kang.
  To appear in IEEE Journal on Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2011.
  
  
• Predicting Network Response Times Using Social Information (short paper)
  Chen Liang, Sharath Hiremagalore, Angelos Stavrou and Huzefa Rangwala.
  In the Proceedings of the ACM 2011 Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.
  
  
• CapMan: Capability-based Defense against Multi-Path Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in MANET
  Quan Jia, Kun Sun and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Privacy, Security and Trust in Mobile and Wireless Systems (MobiPST 2011) in conjunction with 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011).
  
  
• Firmware-assisted Memory Acquisition and Analysis tools for Digital Forensic (short paper)
  Jiang Wang, Fengwei Zhang, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (IEEE SADFE 2011). In conjunction with IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, Oakland, CA, USA, May 26, 2011.
  
  
• Moving Forward, Building An Ethics Community (Panel Statements)
  Computer Security Ethics, Quo Vadis?
  Erin Kenneally, Angelos Stavrou, John McHugh, and Nicolas Christin.
  In the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research 2011 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
  
  
• Breaching and Protecting an Anonymizing Network System
  Jason Clark and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ‘11).
  
  
• Advantages and Caveats of Conducting Usability Tests with Online Users via the Internet
  Erik Nelson and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2011 conference.
  
  
• The Ephemeral Legion: Producing an Expert Cyber-security Workforce from Thin Air
  Michael E. Locasto, Anup Ghosh, Sushil Jajodia, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the proceedings of the Communications of the ACM, Jan 2011, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp 129—131.
  
  
• Exploiting Smart-Phone USB Connectivity For Fun And Profit (Extended Version)
  Angelos Stavrou and Zhaohui Wang.
  BlackHat Technical Conference DC 2011 - Techincal Briefings Session.
  
  
• Exploiting Smart-Phone USB Connectivity For Fun And Profit
  Zhaohui Wang and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACM ACSAC) p. 357-366. December 6–10, 2010, Austin, Texas, USA. (Acceptance rate: 39/227)).
  
  

Recent Professional Activities:

    Editorial Positions, Panels, and Boards

    IET Journal on Information Security, May 2010 - Present.
    Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, Editorial Board Member, March 2010 - Present.


    Program Organization:

    Student Travel Grant Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
    (CCS), 2009, 2010
    Program co-Chair, Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET): 2009, 2010
    Program co-Chair, 1st Workshop on Virtual Machine Security (VMSec): 2008, 2009


    Program Committee Member (Selected Recent):

    Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): 2011
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P): 2010, 2011, 2012
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2009, 2010
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2009, 2010, 2011
    Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
    Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 2010, 2011, 2012
    5th ACM Int'l Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies:2009
    USENIX Security Symposium: 2007, 2008, 2009
    25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC): 2010
    International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks
    (SecureComm), 2009, 2010, 2011
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2009, 2010
    European Workshop on System Security (EUROSEC): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Thesis:

    "An Overlay Architecture for End-to-End Service Availability" (awarded with distinction)[Slides]