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:

• Netgator: Malware Detection Using Program Interactive Challenges.
  Brian Schulte, Haris Andrianakis, Kun Sun, Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2012), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 26-27th, 2012.
  
  
• Mobile Application and Device Power Usage Measurements
  Rahul Murmuria, Jeffrey Medsger, Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
  

• Improving network response times using social information
  Sharath Hiremagalore, Chen Liang, Angelos Stavrou and Huzefa Rangwala.
  Proceedings of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer Wien, p.1-12 (2012).
  

• Building Security into Off-the-Shelf Smartphones
  Angelos Stavrou, Jeffrey Voas, Tom Karygiannis, Steve Quirolgico.
  Computer, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 82-84, Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MC.2012.44

• A Dependability Analysis of Hardware-Assisted Polling Integrity Checking Systems
  Jiang Wang, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
  Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston, Massachusetts, June 2012.

• Implementing & Optimizing an Encryption File System on Android
  Zhaohui Wang, Rahul Murmuria, and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
  (IEEE MDM 2012), July 23 - 26, 2012, Bangalore, India. (Acceptance Rate: 22/88).

• Analysis Android Applications’ Permissions (short paper)
  Ryan Johnson, Zhaohui Wang, Corey Gagnon, and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.

• Mutual Authentication for USB Communications (short paper)
  Zhaohui Wang, Ryan Johnson, and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.

• A Framework for Automated Security Testing of Android Applications on the Cloud (short paper)
  Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Riyadh Mahmood, Nariman Mirzaei, and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.

• SecureSwitch: BIOS-Assisted Isolation and Switch between Trusted
  and Untrusted Commodity OSes
  Kun Sun, Jiang Wang, Fengwei Zhang, and Angelos Stavrou.
  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%).  [Presentation]

• Hardware-Assisted Application Integrity Monitor
  Jiang Wang, Kun Sun, Angelos Stavrou.
  In Proceedings of IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS45)
  pp. 5375-5383, 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2012
  January 4-7, 2012, Grand Wailea, Maui, USA. Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance Rate: N/A).

• DoubleGuard: Detecting Intrusions In Multi-tier Web Applications
  Meixing Le, Angelos Stavrou, Brent ByungHoon Kang.
  In the proceedings of IEEE Journal on Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC),
  ISSN: 1545-5971 10 Nov. 2011. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society. Acceptance Rate: 10-12%, ISI Impact Factor: 2.093.

• 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%).
  
  

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): 2011,2012
    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, 2012
    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]