Creation and Evaluation of SQL Injection Security Tools
This work summarizes our research on the topic of the creation and evaluation of security tools against SQL injection attacks (SQLIAs). We introduce briefly the key concepts and problems of information...
View ArticleAuxiliary Material for the Study of Security Practitioners in Context: Their...
This technical report contains additional material for the study, which investigated the context of interactions of IT security practitioners.
View ArticleTowards Improving Mental Models of Personal Firewall Users
Windows Vista’s personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, our study of this interface revealed that concealing the impact of...
View ArticleMobile Applications for Public Sector: Balancing Usability and Security
Development of mobile software applications for use in specific domains such as Public Security must conform to stringent security requirements. While mobile devices have many known limitations,...
View ArticleUsability Study of Windows Vista’s Firewall
Windows Vista is shipped with a built-in personal firewall. The firewall has lots of new features over its predecessor, XP’s firewall. But, previous studies showed that Vista’s firewall have a set of...
View ArticleUsability of Windows Vista Firewall: A Laboratory User Study
In this project we conducted a user study of Microsoft Windows Vista Firewall: a lab study followed by a questionnaire to evaluate the usability of Vista’s personal firewall. Our results show that the...
View ArticleA Usability Analysis of Microsoft Windows Vista’s Firewall
The usability of personal firewalls has not received a significant amount of attention in the literature. However, it is essential that these firewalls - which are used by the lay end-user to protect...
View ArticleSecurity Practitioners in Context: Their Activities and Interactions with...
This study investigates the context of interactions of IT security practitioners, based on a qualitative analysis of 30 interviews and participatory observation. We identify nine different activities...
View ArticleAn integrated view of human, organizational, and technological challenges of...
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine the main challenges that IT security practitioners face in their organizations, including the interplay among human, organizational, and...
View ArticleSQLPrevent: Effective Dynamic Protection Against SQL Injection Attacks
This paper presents an approach for retrofitting existing web applications with run-time protection against known as well as unseen SQL injection attacks (SQLIAs). This approach (1) is resistant to...
View ArticleUsability Meets Access Control: Challenges and Research Opportunities
This panel discusses specific challenges in the usability of access control technologies and new opportunities for research. The questions vary from “Why nobody, even experts, uses access control lists...
View ArticleApplication-Based TCP Hijacking
We present application-based TCP hijacking (ABTH), a new attack on TCP applications that exploits flaws due to the interplay between TCP and application protocols to inject data into an application...
View ArticleIdentification of sources of failures and their propagation in critical...
Understanding the origin of infrastructure failures and their propagation patterns in critical infrastructures can provide important information for secure and reliable infrastructure design. Among the...
View ArticlePoster: Towards Secure Web 2.0 User Content Sharing Beyond Walled Gardens
Web 2.0 users need usable mechanisms for sharing their content with each other in a controlled manner across boundaries of content-hosting or application-service providers (CSPs). In this paper, we...
View ArticleSpeculative Authorizations
In a large-scale enterprise system, making authorization decisions is often computationally expensive due to the complexity of the policies involved and the large size of the resource and user...
View ArticleAnalysis of ANSI RBAC Support in Commercial Middleware
This thesis analyzes the access control architectures of three middleware technologies: Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), and Component Object Model...
View ArticleToward Improving Availability and Performance of Enterprise Authorization...
In currently deployed large enterprise systems, policy enforcement points (PDPs) are commonly implemented as logically centralized authorization servers. This centralization provides important...
View ArticleRevealing Hidden Context: Improving Mental Models of Personal Firewall Users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on the security state of...
View ArticlePoster: Toward Enabling Secure Web 2.0 Content Sharing Beyond Walled Gardens
Web 2.0 users need usable mechanisms for sharing their content with each other in a controlled manner across boundaries of content-hosting or application-service providers (CSPs). In this paper, we...
View ArticleTowards Web 2.0 Content Sharing Beyond Walled Gardens
Web 2.0 users need usable mechanisms for sharing their content with each other in a controlled manner across boundaries of content-hosting or application-service providers (CSPs). In this presentation,...
View ArticleOpen Problems in Web 2.0 User Content Sharing
Users need useful mechanisms for sharing their Web 2.0 content with each other in a controlled manner across boundaries of content-hosting and service providers (CSPs). In this paper, we discuss open...
View ArticleRevealing Hidden Context: Improving Mental Models of Personal Firewall Users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on the security state of the...
View ArticleUser Centered Design of ITSM Tools
IT Security Management (ITSM) requires collaboration between diverse stakeholders, has an environment of numerous technological and business specializations (is complex), has many issues that need to...
View ArticleTowards Enabling Web 2.0 Content Sharing Beyond Walled Gardens
Web 2.0 users have many choices of content-hosting or application-service providers (CSPs). It can be difficult for a user to share content with a set of real-life friends and associates; intended...
View ArticleRetrofitting Existing Web Applications with Effective Dynamic Protection...
This paper presents an approach for retrofitting existing web applications with run-time protection against known as well as unseen SQL injection attacks (SQLIAs) without the involvement of application...
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