Sean Peisert

Photograph of me lecturing at the blackboard (credit: R. Benjamin Shapiro, 2002).

Upcoming events that I'm involved with:

CLHS (Abstracts due Apr. 4, 2013)

NSPW 2013 (Papers due Apr. 5, 2013)

CSET 2013 (Papers due Apr. 25, 2013)

S&P 2013 (May 20–22, 2013)

Research

Symbiosis in Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Intrusion Detection

Two principal components for providing protection in large-scale distributed systems are Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) and intrusion detection systems (IDS). BFT is used to implement strictly consistent replication of state in the face of arbitrary failures, including those introduced by malware and Internet pathogens. Intrusion detection relates to a broad set of services that detect events that could indicate the presence of an ongoing attack. But BFT traditionally suffers from high latency and replication requirements. But as these two components approach system security differently, we believe that intrusion detection has the potential to has the potential to improve BFT. The integration of these two efforts, at both the fundamental and system levels, is the theme of this research effort.

Researchers currently involved:

Matt Bishop (UC Davis)
Utpal Kumar (UC San Diego)
Karl Levitt (PI; UC Davis)
Keith Marzullo (PI; UC San Diego)
Alessandro Mei (Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy)
Hein Meling (Univ. of Stavanger, Norway)
Sean Peisert (Co-PI; UC Davis)
Jeff Rowe (UC Davis)
Geoff Voelker (UC San Diego)

Current sponsor: National Science Foundation CISE/CCF

Publications resulting from this project:

"Turtles All the Way Down: A Clean-Slate, Ground-Up, First-Principles Approach to Secure Systems": Sean Peisert, Ed Talbot, and Matt Bishop,; Proceedings of the 2012 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), pp. 15–26,; Bertinoro, Italy, September 19–21, 2012. [BibTeX]

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