Research
Publications and Patents:
- On average, the center publishes about 50-70 referred technical papers every year; many of them are published on the premier venues in the field.
- Since 2002, more than 500 referred technical papers have been published.
- In recent years, the core faculty has authored or edited more than 10 books and conference proceedings; most of them are published by prestigious publishers, including ACM, IEEE, and Springer.
- Since 2010, the core faculty have been issued at least 5 U.S. patents.
Funding:
- The center's research program has been well funded by some of the most prestigious and competitive funding agencies and programs.
- Currently, the core faculty is funded by more than $6,000,000 (core faculty credit only) active research grants & contracts. See here for a list of selected grants.
Recent Themes:
- Secure Mobile Devices and Smartphones
- Cyber Situational Awareness
- Online Privacy
- Adaptive Cyber Defense
- Secure Cloud Computing
- Secure Cyber Physical Systems
- Secure and Privacy Aware IoT
- Economics of Information Security
- Software Plagiarism
- Self-Healing Systems
- Access Control meets Social Networks
- Big Data Securty and Privacy
Cross-Cutting Thrusts:
The following areas of expertise are applied to research projects by leveraging the multi-disciplinary skills of faculty and graduate students at LIONS Center and across Penn State.
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Problem & Approach |
Sponsor/Projects |
| Cyber Security |
Problem:
- Business continuity vs. security
- Enterprise software has high complexity
- Malware defense
Approach:
- Automatic self-recovery
- Survivability-driven architectures
- Behavior-based malware analysis
- Comprehensive cross-layer infection analysis
- Integrated static & dynamic analyses
- Novel wireless key management & authentication schemes
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- MURI: Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems
- NSF ARRA TC-M: Towards Self-Protecting Data Centers
- NSF CT-M: Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks
- NSF CAREER: Combating Worm Propagation in Emergent Networks
- ARO: Graphical Models for Security Analysis
- NSF/DHS: Testing and Benchmarking Methodologies for Network Security
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| Cyber Situational Awareness |
Problem:
- Physical SA tools cannot solve cyber problems
- Existing cyber SA tools have big blind spot
- For analysts: big gap between human cognition and SA algorithms often exists
Approach:
- SA driven human cognition simulation and automation
- System wide static and dynamic analyses
- System "map"
- Game theoretic modeling & analysis
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- ARO MURI: Computer-aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness
- DOE: A Game Theoretic Approach for Cyber Attack Prediction (recent)
- DTRA: Relational Network Analysis and Complexity for WMD Intention Discovery
- Center of Academic Excellence for Intelligence Community
- RFID in Smart Space for Aging in Place
- Extreme event simulation
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| Information Sharing and Privacy |
Problem:
- Privacy "is in disarray and nobody can articulate what it means"
- Big gap between computational privacy definition and users’ perceptions
- Stove pipes (lack of trust) deter information sharing
Approach:
- Privacy by design
- Conceptual understandings of privacy
- Empirical examinations of social/human nuances and consequences of privacy-enhancing technologies
- Trust-based information sharing
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- NSF CAREER: Examining Users' Collective Privacy Management for Online Social Networks
- NSF TC: MySpace Generation's Online Safety: Adolescent Attitude and Behavior, Parental Mediation, and Educational Intervention
- NSF HCC: Collaborative Privacy Practices: Exploring Privacy in Information Intensive Environments
- NSF CT-ER: Privacy Assurance in Location-Based Services
- DHS Center for Border Security and Immigration
- NSF CT-M: Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks
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