Sean Peisert

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

Upcoming events that I'm involved with:

DFRWS 2012 (Papers due Feb. 20, 2012)

NSPW 2012 (Papers due Apr. 6, 2012)

CSET 2012 (Papers due Apr. 19, 2012)

Dagstuhl Seminar (Dec. 9–12, 2012)

Research Projects

My focus is currently in several primary areas, including computer forensics, electronic voting, the insider threat, security policy modeling, security metrics, experiments, and empirical studies. This page lists a number of the research projects that I am or have recently been working on.

I am extremely grateful to the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy Office of Science, the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the I3P, for supporting the research that my graduate students and I are conducting.

Current Projects

NSF Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Intrusion Detection

Current sponsor: National Science Foundation CISE/CCF (Co-PI)

Computer Forensics

Past sponsor: Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) (Fellowship/Co-PI)

NSF Electronic Voting and E-Voting Forensics

Current sponsor: National Science Foundation CISE/CCF and CISE/CNS (Co-PI / Co-PI)

Insider Threat

No sponsors yet.

DOE Intrusion Detection and Data Sanitization for High-Performance Computing

Current sponsor: Department of Energy Office of Science (PI)

DOE Smart Grid Security

Current sponsor: Department of Energy's Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) program (Co-PI)

NSF The Hive Mind: Sensor Networks for GENI

Current sponsor: National Science Foundation CISE/CNS and BBN/GENI Projects Office (PI)

Past Projects

I3P Metric-Based Anomaly Detection

Current sponsor: Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) (Co-PI)

I3P Data Anonymization/Sanitization (Senior Personnel)

NSF Recommendation Systems Security (Senior Personnel)

NSF Security Metrics, Experiments, and Empirical Studies (Co-PI)

"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together—surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth."

-Professor Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980)

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