An article I wrote two years ago (2009) for Atomium Culture was accepted one year ago (2010) and as a consequence it will be published in many European newspapers.

I’ll be adding here the links to the articles as they get published:

• El Pais (Spain)
• http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2011/10/28/actualidad/

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
• http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31277/schutzbeduerftige-it-systeme-einst-sehr-sicher-heute-unsicher-30435904.html

• Der Standard (Austria)
• http://derstandard.at/1304551384181/Avoiding-a-cyber-triggered-catastrophe

Next scheduled publications:

• Irish Times (Ireland)
• Rzcespospolita (Poland)

João Catarino de Sousa, Typhon: um Serviço de Autenticação e Autorização Tolerante a Intrusões, Master/Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (co-advised with Alysson Neves Bessani), July 2010.

ReD is a two-year research project (Apr 2010-Mar 2012) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

If you feel that you are up to this challenge, please apply:

http://lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/images/2/2b/BI_Regenesys_Mestre_jan10-1.pdf

Deadline: 26-March-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 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.

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.

Cheap Intrusion-Tolerant Protection for CRUTIAL Things
Alysson Bessani, Paulo Sousa, Miguel Correia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Veríssimo
Available as Technical Report DI/FCUL TR-2009-14.

Intrusion-Resilient Middleware Design and Validation
Paulo Veríssimo, Miguel Correia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Sousa
In Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services (Handbooks in Information Systems, volume 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 615-678, 2009.

Intrusion-Tolerant Self-Healing Devices for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Paulo Sousa, Alysson N. Bessani, Wagner S. Dantas, Fábio Souto, Miguel Correia, Nuno F. Neves
In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), Estoril, Portugal, Jun-Jul 2009, to appear.