NESD 2015
New England Security Day
News:
- The first annual New England Security Day on September 17, 2015 was a great success! Thank you to all the participants.
See more pictures of the event.
- Jeremy Epstein of the National Science Foundation gave a great keynote!
See his slides.
Program:
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| Session 1: Networking (chair: Yuriy Brun) | ||
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| Session 2: Privacy (chair: Gerome Miklau) | ||
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| Session 3: Cryptography and Cloud Computing (chair: Daniel Holcomb) | ||
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| 14:00–14:10 |
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| Session 4: Web and Mobile (chair: Amir Houmansadr) | ||
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Dinner:
We encourage you to assemble after the NESD program ends and have a meal together (at your own expense). Several UMass faculty will be leading groups.
Thursday evening is the Amherst Block party which offers many activities and food. There are also many high-quality restaurants, including:
For those headed in that direction, Northampton has an even larger set of options.Posters:
| Poster Title (authors) | Affiliation |
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| Privacy Preserving Analysis of Big Data (Gerome Miklau) | UMass Amherst |
| Physically Aware yet Physically Unclonable Functions (Xiaolin Xu and Wayne Burleson) | UMass Amherst |
| My Google Glass Sees Your Password! (Qinggang Yue and Xinwen Fu) | UMass Lowell |
| ZipPhone: Preserving Location Privacy without Carrier Cooperation (Keen Sung, Brian N. Levine, and Marc Liberatore) | UMass Amherst |
| Zero-Knowledge Authenticated Order Queries and Applications (Esha Ghosh, Michael T. Goodrich, Olga Ohrimenko, and Roberto Tamassia) | Brown University |
| ICLab: the information controls measurement platform (Abbas Razaghpanah and Phillipa Gill) | Stony Brook University |
| Games without Frontiers: Investigating Video-games as Covert Channels (Rishab Nithyanand and Phillipa Gill) | Stony Brook University |
| Covert Communication when a Jammer Employs Random Power (Tamara V. Sobers, Boulat A. Bash, Dennis Goeckel, Saikat Guha, and Don Towsley) | UMass Amherst |
| Security and Privacy Measures for Bitcoin (Pinar Ozisik, George Bissias, Brian Levine, Amir Houmansadr, and Gavin Andresen) | UMass Amherst |
| Classifier Adjusted Density Estimation for Anomaly Detection and One-Class Classification (Lisa Friedland, Amanda Gentzel, and David Jensen) | UMass Amherst |
| Optimizing Information System Security Investments with Risk: Insights for Resource Allocation (Yueran Zhuo and Senay Solak) | UMass Amherst |
| Rank Aggregation under Differential Privacy (Liudmila Elagina, Michael Hay, and Gerome Miklau) | UMass Amherst |
| Deep Specifications and Certified Abstraction Layers (Ronghui Gu, Jérémie Koenig, Tahina Ramananandro, Zhong Shao, Xiongnan (Newman) Wu, Shu-Chun Weng, Haozhong Zhang, and Yu Guo) | Yale University |
| Principled Evaluation of Differentially Private Algorithms using DPBench (Michael Hay, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Gerome Miklau, Yan Chen, and Dan Zhang) | UMass Amherst |
| Preventing Integrated Circuit Piracy via Custom Encoding of Hardware Instruction Set (Vinay C Patil, Arunkumar Vijayakumar, and Sandip Kundu) | UMass Amherst |
| TrueClick: Automatically Distinguishing Trick Banners from Genuine Download Links (Sevtap Duman, Kaan Onarlioglu, Ali Osman Ulusoy, William Robertson, and Engin Kirda) | Northeastern University |
| Game Theoretic Model for Cybersecurity with Nonlinear Budget Constraints (Shivani Shukla, Anna Nagurney, Ladimer Nagurney, and Patrizia Daniele) | UMass Amherst |
| Covert Communications on Poisson Packet Channels (Ramin Soltani, Dennis Goeckel, Donald Towsley, and Amir Houmansadr) | UMass Amherst |
| A Network Economic Game Theory Model of a Service-Oriented Internet with Price and Quality Competition in Both Content and Network Provision (Sara Saberi, Anna Nagurney, and Tilman Wolf) | UMass Amherst |
| Cyber Security Issues — Inmetro/Brazilian Perspective (Charles Prado) | Inmetro |
| ZigZag: Automatically Hardening Web Applications Against Client-side Validation Vulnerabilities (Michael Weissbacher, William Robertson, Engin Kirda, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna) | Northeastern University |
Venue:
NESD 2015 will be held in Amherst, Massachusetts, at the UMass College of Information and Computer Sciences, located at 140 Governors Dr., Amherst, MA 01003.
Please park in lot 31. You do not need a permit to park in this lot. However, if you park at a meter (without paying the meter), you will be ticketed. So don't park at a meter.
Area Hotels:
- Hotel UMass
- Lord Jeffery Inn
- Courtyard Marriott
- Howard Johnson Express Inn
- Holiday Inn Express & Suites
Anti-Harassment Policy:
The open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression are central to the aims and goals of NESD; these require an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person and group, that fosters dignity, understanding, and mutual respect, and that embraces diversity. For these reasons, NESD is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience, and implements the ACM policy against harassment.
Participants violating these standards may be sanctioned or expelled from NESD, at the discretion of the organizing committee members.
A useful related resource is the Geek Feminism Wiki, which includes models for public announcements and guidance for conference staff. If you hear an inappropriate remark, intended or misjudged, we encourage you not to stay silent. You may find this list of comebacks to be useful.
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