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From idea to prototype: Introducing students to entrepreneurship

Colin Reagle, Viviana Maggioni, Mihai Boicu, Massimiliano Albanese, more

2017 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) > 71 - 75

2017 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)

We describe results from a semester-long class taught by seven faculty at George Mason University, aimed at providing resources to engage students in idea generation, design cycle development, and finally elaboration of a business plan. This is intended to alleviate a perceived lack of access for students to commercialize their ideas. Undergraduate and graduate students are often left with unfinished...

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Scalable Detection of Cyber Attacks

Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Andrea Pugliese, V. S. Subrahmanian

Communications in Computer and Information Science > Computer Information Systems – Analysis and Technologies > Keynote and Plenary Lectures > 9-18

Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to incrementally penetrate a network and compromise critical systems. The enormous amount of raw security data available to analysts and the complex interdependencies among vulnerabilities make manual analysis extremely labor-intensive and error-prone. To address this important problem, we build on previous work on topological vulnerability analysis, and propose...

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A moving target defense approach to mitigate DDoS attacks against proxy-based architectures

Sridhar Venkatesan, Massimiliano Albanese, Kareem Amin, Sushil Jajodia, more

2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) > 198 - 206

2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

Distributed Denial of Service attacks against high-profile targets have become more frequent in recent years. In response to such massive attacks, several architectures have adopted proxies to introduce layers of indirection between end users and target services and reduce the impact of a DDoS attack by migrating users to new proxies and shuffling clients across proxies so as to isolate malicious...

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A quantitative risk assessment framework for adaptive Intrusion Detection in the cloud

Luan Huy Pham, Massimiliano Albanese, Sridhar Venkatesan

2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) > 489 - 497

2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

Cloud computing has significantly transformed the way businesses and governments approach information technology. Although the shift to cloud computing has brought many benefits in terms of cost and efficiency, new security challenges have emerged. A recent study has identified a number of critical security issues for cloud, including advanced persistent threats, malicious insiders, and data breaches...

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Keeping intruders at large: A graph-theoretic approach to reducing the probability of successful network intrusions

Paulo Shakarian, Damon Paulo, Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia

2014 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT) > 1 - 12

2014 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT)

It is well known that not all intrusions can be prevented and additional lines of defense are needed to deal with intruders. However, most current approaches use honeynets relying on the assumption that simply attracting intruders into honeypots would thwart the attack. In this paper, we propose a different and more realistic approach, which aims at delaying intrusions, so as to control the probability...

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Network Diversity: A Security Metric for Evaluating the Resilience of Networks Against Zero-Day Attacks

Mengyuan Zhang, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal, more

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security > 2016 > 11 > 5 > 1071 - 1086

Diversity has long been regarded as a security mechanism for improving the resilience of software and networks against various attacks. More recently, diversity has found new applications in cloud computing security, moving target defense, and improving the robustness of network routing. However, most existing efforts rely on intuitive and imprecise notions of diversity, and the few existing models...

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PLINI: A Probabilistic Logic Program Framework for Inconsistent News Information

Massimiliano Albanese, Matthias Broecheler, John Grant, Maria Vanina Martinez, more

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Logic Programming, Knowledge Representation, and Nonmonotonic Reasoning > ASP – Applications and Tools > 347-376

News sources are reliably unreliable. Different news sources may provide significantly differing reports about the same event. Often times, even the same news source may provide widely varying data over a period of time about the same event. Past work on inconsistency management and paraconsistent logics assume that we have “clean” definitions of inconsistency. However, when reasoning about events...

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Semantic Video Content Analysis

Massimiliano Albanese, Pavan Turaga, Rama Chellappa, Andrea Pugliese, more

Studies in Computational Intelligence > Video Search and Mining > Semantic Video Analysis > 147-176

In recent years, there has been significant interest in the area of automatically recognizing activities occurring in a camera’s field of view and detecting abnormalities. The practical applications of such a system could include airport tarmac monitoring, or monitoring of activities in secure installations, to name a few. The difficulty of the problem is compounded by several factors: detection of...

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Scalable Analysis of Attack Scenarios

Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Andrea Pugliese, V. S. Subrahmanian

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Computer Security – ESORICS 2011 > Information Flow, Side Channels, and Vulnerability Analysis > 416-433

Attack graphs have been widely used for attack modeling, alert correlation, and prediction. In order to address the limitations of current approaches – scalability and impact analysis – we propose a novel framework to analyze massive amounts of alerts in real time, and measure the impact of current and future attacks. Our contribution is threefold. First, we introduce the notion of generalized dependency...

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Information Retrieval from the Web: An Interactive Paradigm

Massimiliano Albanese, Pasquale Capasso, Antonio Picariello, Antonio Maria Rinaldi

Lecture Notes in Computer Science > Advances in Multimedia Information Systems > Regular Papers > 17-32

Information retrieval is moving beyond the stage where users simply type one or more keywords and retrieve a ranked list of documents. In such a scenario users have to go through the returned documents in order to find what they are actually looking for. More often they would like to get targeted answers to their queries without extraneous information, even if their requirements are not well specified...

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Disrupting stealthy botnets through strategic placement of detectors

Sridhar Venkatesan, Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia

2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) > 95 - 103

2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

In recent years, botnets have gained significant attention due to their extensive use in various kinds of criminal or otherwise unauthorized activities. Botnets have become increasingly sophisticated, and studies have shown that they can significantly reduce their footprint and increase their dwell time. Therefore, modern botnets can operate in stealth mode and evade detection for extended periods...

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A deception based approach for defeating OS and service fingerprinting

Massimiliano Albanese, Ermanno Battista, Sushil Jajodia

2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) > 317 - 325

2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

Cyber attacks are typically preceded by a reconnaissance phase in which attackers aim at collecting critical information about the target system, including information about network topology, services, operating systems, and unpatched vulnerabilities. Specifically, operating system fingerprinting aims at determining the operating system of a remote host in either a passive way, through sniffing and...

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An efficient approach to assessing the risk of zero-day vulnerabilities

Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal, Lingyu Wang

2013 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT) > 1 - 12

2013 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT)

Computer systems are vulnerable to both known and zero-day attacks. Although known attack patterns can be easily modeled, thus enabling the development of suitable hardening strategies, handling zero-day vulnerabilities is inherently difficult due to their unpredictable nature. Previous research has attempted to assess the risk associated with unknown attack patterns, and a suitable metric to quantify...

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Manipulating the attacker's view of a system's attack surface

Massimiliano Albanese, Ermanno Battista, Sushil Jajodia, Valentina Casola

2014 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security > 472 - 480

2014 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

Cyber attacks are typically preceded by a reconnaissance phase in which attackers aim at collecting valuable information about the target system, including network topology, service dependencies, and unpatched vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, when system configurations are static, attackers will always be able, given enough time, to acquire accurate knowledge about the target system and engineer effective...

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Next-generation technologies for preventing accidental death of children trapped in parked vehicles

Vittoria Aiello, Parnian Najafi Borazjani, Ermanno Battista, Massimiliano Albanese

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2014) > 508 - 513

2014 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)

Integration of computational and physical elements into cyber-physical systems is increasingly finding application in a number of different domains, including smart power grids, medical technologies, and building automation. In this paper, we study how the notion of cyber-physical integration can be applied to the design of the next generation of safety devices for saving the life of children inadvertently...

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A probabilistic framework for jammer identification in MANETs

Massimiliano Albanese, Alessandra De Benedictis, Sushil Jajodia, Don Torrieri

Ad Hoc Networks > 2014 > 14 > Complete > 84-94

Cyber maneuver is envisioned as a way of increasing the robustness of imperfect systems by creating and deploying mechanisms that continually change a system’s attack surface. A particularly useful strategy against jamming attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) entails using cyber-maneuver keys to supplement higher-level cryptographic keys. Such keys can be periodically changed either in a proactive...

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Discovering the Top-k Unexplained Sequences in Time-Stamped Observation Data

Massimiliano Albanese, Cristian Molinaro, Fabio Persia, Antonio Picariello, more

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering > 2014 > 26 > 3 > 577 - 594

There are numerous applications where we wish to discover unexpected activities in a sequence of time-stamped observation data--for instance, we may want to detect inexplicable events in transactions at a website or in video of an airport tarmac. In this paper, we start with a known set $({\cal A})$ of activities (both innocuous and dangerous) that we wish to monitor. However, in addition, we wish...

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A Logic Framework for Flexible and Security-Aware Service Composition

Massimiliano Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Cristian Molinaro

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing > 337 - 346

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC)

Automatic service composition finds applicability in many different domains. Composition comes into play when a user's request cannot be fulfilled by a single software module, but the composition of multiple modules can provide the requested services. In many application domains it is important to be able to express QoS and security attributes associated with services and take them into account in...

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Security-Aware Scheduling of Mission Tasks under Temporal Constraints

Sepideh Deliri, Massimiliano Albanese

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing > 452 - 457

2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC)

Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of heterogeneous distributed systems for deploying critical missions. This trend is motivated by the flexibility and great processing capabilities that such systems can offer. However, their inherent complexity makes them prone to a wide range of cyber attacks. Efficiently scheduling mission tasks under various temporal and security constraints is...

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A moving target defense mechanism for MANETs based on identity virtualization

Massimiliano Albanese, Alessandra De Benedictis, Sushil Jajodia, Kun Sun

2013 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) > 278 - 286

2013 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)

Mechanisms for continuously changing or shifting a system's attack surface are emerging as game-changers in cyber security. In this paper, we propose a novel defense mechanism for protecting the identity of nodes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and defeat the attacker's reconnaissance efforts. The proposed mechanism turns a classical attack mechanism - Sybil - into an effective defense mechanism, with legitimate...

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Search results for: Massimiliano Albanese

From idea to prototype: Introducing students to entrepreneurship

Scalable Detection of Cyber Attacks

A moving target defense approach to mitigate DDoS attacks against proxy-based architectures

A quantitative risk assessment framework for adaptive Intrusion Detection in the cloud

Keeping intruders at large: A graph-theoretic approach to reducing the probability of successful network intrusions

Network Diversity: A Security Metric for Evaluating the Resilience of Networks Against Zero-Day Attacks

PLINI: A Probabilistic Logic Program Framework for Inconsistent News Information

Semantic Video Content Analysis

Scalable Analysis of Attack Scenarios

Information Retrieval from the Web: An Interactive Paradigm

Disrupting stealthy botnets through strategic placement of detectors

A deception based approach for defeating OS and service fingerprinting

An efficient approach to assessing the risk of zero-day vulnerabilities

Manipulating the attacker's view of a system's attack surface

Next-generation technologies for preventing accidental death of children trapped in parked vehicles

A probabilistic framework for jammer identification in MANETs

Discovering the Top-k Unexplained Sequences in Time-Stamped Observation Data

A Logic Framework for Flexible and Security-Aware Service Composition

Security-Aware Scheduling of Mission Tasks under Temporal Constraints

A moving target defense mechanism for MANETs based on identity virtualization

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