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    Highly Available Intrusion-Tolerant Services with Proactive-Reactive Recovery

    February 22nd, 2010

    Highly Available Intrusion-Tolerant Services with Proactive-Reactive Recovery
    Paulo Sousa, Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Veríssimo
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 452-465, Apr. 2010.


    REGENESYS: Regeneration of Replicated Systems

    January 6th, 2010

    REGENESYS is a three-year research project (Jan 2010-Dec 2012) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

    We have scholarships available to Master and PhD students that want to participate in this project. If you are interested in participating in this project, please send me an email.


    Sérgio Nunes (Thesis Committee)

    December 16th, 2009

    Sérgio Rodrigues Nunes, Web Attack Risk Awareness with Lessons Learned from High Interaction Honeypots, Mestrado em Segurança Informática (University of Lisboa) & Master Of Science in Information Technology – Information Security (Carnegie Mellon University), December 2009.


    Carlos Silva (Master student, finished)

    December 15th, 2009

    Carlos Silva, RAVE: Replicated Antivirus Engine, Mestrado em Segurança Informática (University of Lisboa) & Master Of Science in Information Technology – Information Security (Carnegie Mellon University), December 2009.


    SMaRt replication library

    December 13th, 2009

    SMaRt is a high performance Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine replication protocol developed in Java with simplicity and robustness as primary requirements. Our main objective is to provide a code base that can be used to build dependable services and also extended to create new protocols.

    Check the most recent release at http://code.google.com/p/bft-smart/


    Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Security and Dependability Academy

    December 1st, 2009

    14-15th December, 2009
    Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

    *see the Academy brochure*

    The Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Security and Dependability Academy is an opportunity for professionals of computer science and engineering or related areas, interested in improving their skills, to get in touch with the experts involved in the Dual Carnegie Mellon University – University of Lisboa Master of Science in Information Technology–Information Security (MSIT-IS).

    The Academy will provide a sample of the topics taught during the MSIT-IS program through a set of exciting technical lectures and hands-on experiments in the program’s lab, where the attendees will get the chance to try live cyber-attack and defense technologies.

    Although inspired by the MSIT-IS, the academy will be interesting on its own as a forum for discussion of the latest concepts in Security and Dependability.

    After the lectures and laboratory experiments, the academy will close with the Pen Testing Trophy, where a victim machine will be subject to penetration testing by willing participants competing for a mysterious trophy.

    Check the Program, Lectures details, Instructors, etc.


    IBWAS’09: Iberic Web Application Security

    November 19th, 2009

    IBWAS’09: Iberic Web Application Security, Dec 10-11, 2009.

    Summary:

    There is a change in the information systems development paradigm. The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies led to the extensive deployment and use of web-based applications and web services as a way to developed new and flexible information systems. Such systems are easy to develop, deploy and maintain and demonstrate impressive features for users, resulting in their current wide use.

    As a result of this paradigm shift, the security requirements have also changed. These web-based information systems have different security requirements, when compared to traditional systems. Important security issues have been found and privacy concerns have also been raised recently. In addition, the emerging Cloud Computing paradigm promises even greater flexibility; however corresponding security and privacy issues still need to be examined. The security environment should involve not only the surrounding environment but also the application core.

    This conference aims to bring together application security experts, researchers, educators and practitioners from the industry, academia and international communities such as OWASP, in order to discuss open problems and new solutions in application security. In the context of this track academic researchers will be able to combine interesting results with the experience of practitioners and software engineers.


    Efficient State Transfer for Recovery-Based Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant State Machine Replication

    September 1st, 2009

    Efficient State Transfer for Recovery-Based Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant State Machine Replication
    Rogério Correia, Paulo Sousa
    In Actas do INForum – Simpósio de Informática 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2009.


    Miguel Garcia (BSc internship, finished)

    July 31st, 2009

    Miguel Garcia, Regeneração de Sistemas Informáticos Replicados, BSc internship (Co-advised with Alysson Neves Bessani), September 2008 – July 2009.


    Francisco Vieira (BSc internship, finished)

    July 31st, 2009

    Francisco Vieira, Transparent Intrusion-Tolerant Name and Directory Service, BSc internship (Co-advised with Alysson Neves Bessani), September 2008 – July 2009.