Overview
My main focus of research is Security in Computing Systems in general, and Storage Systems in particular. My dissertation topic is Secure Provenance, in which I explore various techniques for providing integrity and confidentiality guarantees to provenance - the history of objects.
I have also explored the development of Threat models in storage systems, and practical application of Trust Negotiation in Disaster management and Power Grid Security.
My research activities are associated with my advisor Prof. Marianne Winslett, my co-advisor Prof. Radu Sion of Stony Brook, the NCSA Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS) group, and the NCSA Storage Security and Survivability group at UIUC.
Current Projects
- Secure Provenance: Providing confidentiality, integrity, and privacy gurantees for storage provenance.
- Security Breach Analysis: An analysis of storage security breaches
- FlexPolicies: An attempt to make security policies more flexible, and usable
- Threat modeling : A threat model for storage system security
Past Projects
- Synergy: A Trust-aware, Policy-driven Information Dissemination Framework
- VisiResCUE: A Trust-enabled Disaster Management System
- Prohori: A Policy-based Authorization and Intrusion Detection System for Smart Buildings
- StorageSec: Analysis of storage security models
- UCLog+ : A situational awareness system for intrusion detection
- CCA/Babel: Creating an automated code generation and porting tool for legacy code
- svPablo : Using statistical analysis for instrumentation/performance analysis
Research Groups