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CMU Science of Security Lablet Research Initiative

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Visible to the public Secure composition of systems and policies

Team Members:  Anupam Datta, Limin Jia, Jeanette Wing

Project Description:

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Visible to the public Andre' Platzer

Andre Platzer is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Platzer developed the theory, practice, and applications of logical analysis and verification of hybrid systems, and he proved the very first completeness theorem for hybrid systems. He introduced compositional verification techniques and methods that can verify hybrid systems without solving their differential equations (called differential invariants).

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Visible to the public Security reasoning for distributed systems with uncertainties

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The project team includes Andre' Platzer who is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an expert in verification and analysis of hybrid, distributed, and stochastic dynamic systems, including cyber-physical systems. The team further includes Erik P. Zawadzki, who is a fourth year graduate student in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University and is developing reasoning techniques for first-order MILPs and fast propositional solvers for probabilistic model counting.
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Visible to the public David Garlan

David Garlan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Software Engineering Professional Programs in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D.

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Visible to the public Architecture-based Self Securing Systems

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PI: Prof. David Garlan (Faculty),

Staff: Dr. Bradley Schmerl (Research Faculty)

Students: Ivan Ruchkin (Ph.D. Student), new student to be recruited.

Personnel Qualifications

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Visible to the public Kathleen M. Carley

Kathleen M. Carley specializes in organization theory, dynamic network analysis, social networks, multi-agent systems and computational social science. In her work, she examines how cognitive, social and institutional factors affect individual, team, social and policy outcomes in a wide variety of areas including command and control, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, organizational design, corporate mergers and leadership.

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Visible to the public Learned Resiliency: Secure Multi-Level Systems

The Team

Professor Kathleen M. Carley

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Visible to the public Jonathan Aldrich

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Visible to the public A Language and Framework for Development of Secure Mobile Applications

Jonathan Aldrich, Anthony Tomasic

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Visible to the public Security Reasoning for Distributed Systems with Uncertainties

PI:          Andre Platzer                

Student: Erik P. Zawadzki

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Visible to the public Secure Composition of Systems and Policies

Compositional security is a recognized central scientific challenge for trustworthy computing. Contemporary systems are built up from smaller components. However, even if each component is secure in isolation, the composed system may not achieve the desired end-to-end security property: an adversary may exploit complex interactions between components to compromise security. Such attacks have shown up in the wild in many different settings, including web browsers and infrastructure, network protocols and infrastructure, and application and systems software.

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Visible to the public Improving Usability of Security Requirements by Software Developers through Empirical Studies and Analysis

Hard Problem: Security requirements are difficult to apply in design and must incorporate system architectrure, functional requirements, sexuriry policies, regulations, and standards.

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Visible to the public Architecture-based Self-securing Systems

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Visible to the public Validating Productivity Benefits of Type-Like Behavioral Specifications

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Many tools check code against lightweight, type-like specifications, and empirical data shows that these tools can find defects. However, little is known about the productivity benefits achievable from such tools, nor the mechanisms by which such productivity benefits might be realized.

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Visible to the public  CMU SoS 2012 Quarterly Lablet PI Meeting
Jul 17, 2012 5:00 am - 5:00 am EDT

Carnegie Mellon University

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Visible to the public Security Reasoning For Distributed Systems with Uncertainties

The project team includes Andre' Platzer who is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an expert in verification and analysis of hybrid, distributed, and stochastic dynamic systems, including cyber-physical systems. The team further includes Erik P. Zawdzki, who is a fourth year graduate student in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University and is developing reasoning techniques for first-order MILPs and fast propositional solvers for probabilistic model counting.

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Visible to the public D garlan project description SecurityAssurance - final.docx

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Visible to the public Project Descriptions

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