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 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 Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) program, and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), for supporting the research that my graduate students and I are conducting.

Current, Funded Projects

NSF Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Intrusion Detection

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

NSF Electronic Voting and E-Voting Forensics

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

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)

Currently Unfunded Projects

Computer Forensics

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

Insider Threat

No sponsors yet.

Past Projects

I3P Metric-Based Anomaly Detection (Co-PI)

I3P Data Anonymization/Sanitization (Senior Personnel)

NSF Recommendation Systems Security (Senior Personnel)

NSF Computer System Vulnerabilities and the Efficacy of Defensive Mechanisms (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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