Stevens CS hosts fourth biannual Stevens / Columbia / IBM Research Security and Privacy Day

The Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology hosted the fourth biannual Stevens / Columbia / IBM Research Security Privacy Day on November 16, which brought together representatives from business and academia to discuss issues in computer security and privacy. Andrew Appel from Princeton University gave a keynote talk on the issues and challenges in electronic voting. Juan Garray of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories gave an overview of the Universal Composability framework for reasoning about the composition of security protocols. Sven Dietrich of Stevens Institute gave a history of malware and "botnets," including the evolving sophistication of the management of such networks. Salvatore Stolfo of Columbia University spoke about experiments with content-based anomaly detectors which apply machine learning techniques to detect viruses in the payloads of network packets. Larry Koved and Ted Habeck of IBM Research reviewed the state of the art in best practices for developing trustworthy software, particularly for Internet applications, and demonstrated the SWORD4J tool, based on the Eclipse IDE, for supporting those practices. Antonio Nicolosi of Stevens Institute described a traitor tracing scheme for controlling the real-time distribution of data such as digital content.

The next Security and Privacy Day will be held in the Spring at IBM Research Hawthorne.