Overview

Who can join Any faculty or student
Location Zoom
Meeting Times Wednesday 4:00pm-5:00pm
Want to present? Contact Syed Rafiul Hussain (hussain1 'at' psu.edu)

In this seminar, we will discuss current and interesting systems, software, and network security papers from top conferences. While discussing an individual paper, we will carefully study the threat/security model, proposed contributions, prototype implementations, and evaluation. We will compare the proposed contribution with the state-of-the-art and discuss potential shortcomings, and applications to other areas. This seminar is intended for students broadly interested in systems, software and network security research, novel and emerging security trends, or clever applications of security ideas. We will discuss one paper each week and try to learn new things about systems and network security research together.

Seminar Format

For this seminar, we will focus on top systems, software and network security topics from conferences like IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland), NDSS, CCS, Usenix Security, SIGCOMM, NSDI, PLDI, OSDI, SOSP, Usenix ATC, OOPSLA, EuroSys or ASPLOS. Top papers from other conferences are also welcome as long as there are sufficient interests. The seminar is student-driven, i.e., a student will present a paper each week. The general idea is that everybody reads the paper and one person who selects the paper is the discussion-lead. The discussion-lead will give a 20–25-minute introduction to the paper and highlight the important research contributions. After this introduction, we will focus on an open discussion of the pros and cons of the proposed ideas in the paper, evaluation, scope, alternatives, and other constraints. It is expected that students lead at least one discussion per semester.

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