News

• 2024/09: NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure has awarded our proposal on "Quantum-Resistant Cryptography in Supercomputing Scientific Applications"!


• 2024/07: IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) accepted paper on Post Quantum Cryptography.
  Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Network Instrument: Measuring PQC Adoption Rates and Identifying Migration Pathways, with Jakub Sowa et al.
  


• 2024/06: USENIX Security paper on SOC Network Alerts
  True Attacks, Attack Attempts, or Benign Triggers?, with Limin et al.
  


• 2024/06: ARRAY workshop at PLDI
  The Landscape of Formal Verification in APL: a Review with a Case Study in Quantum Computing, 2024
  


• 2024/04: Workshop on Dependability Challenges in Hybrid Classical-Quantum Computing Systems
  IEEE Quantum Week 2024
  


• 2023/08: Verification-aware Federated Authentication
  FABRIC Testbed
  


• 2023/03: Trusted CI Fellow
  NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, 2023
  

Publications

• Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Network Instrument:
  Measuring PQC Adoption Rates and Identifying Migration Pathways
  Jakub Sowa, Bach Hoang, Advaith Yeluru, Steven Qie, Anita Nikolich, Ravishankar Iyer, Phuong Cao
  IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
  Pre-print PDF
  
• True Attacks, Attack Attempts, or Benign Triggers? An Empirical Measurement of Network Alerts in a Security Operations Center
  Limin Yang, Zhi Chen, Chenkai Wang, Zhenning Zhang, Sushruth Booma, Phuong Cao, Constantin Adam, Alex Withers, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Gang Wang
  33rd USENIX Security Symposium
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• Taxonomy of Fingerprinting Techniques for Evaluation of Smart Grid Honeypot Realism
  Vanessa Tay, Xinran Li, Daisuke Mashima, Bennet Ng, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K Iyer
  IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2023
  PDF
• Post-Quantum Cyberinfrastructure Security Readiness: Risks, Measures and Prospects
  Phuong Cao, Bach Hoang, Santiago Nunez-Corrales
  ASCR Workshop on Basic Research Needs in Quantum Computing and Networking, Department of Energy, (Position Paper), 2023.
  PDF
• stealthML: Data-driven Malware for Stealthy Data Exfiltration
  Keywhan Chung, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K Iyer
  IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, 2023
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• Predicting ICU Admissions for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients with a Factor Graph-based Model
  Yurui Cao, Phuong Cao, Haotian Chen, Karl M. Kochendorfer, Andrew B. Trotter, William L. Galanter, Paul M. Arnold, Ravishankar K Iyer
  AAAI-22 Health Intelligence Workshop
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• Investigating Root Causes of Authentication Failures Using a SAML and OIDC Observatory
  Jim Basney, Phuong Cao, Terry Fleury
  IEEE DependSys 2020
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• Mining Threat Intelligence from Billion-scale SSH Brute-Force Attacks
  Yuming Wu, Phuong Cao, Alex Withers, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer
  Workshop on Decentralized IoT Systems and Security, co-located with NDSS, 2020
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• CAUDIT: Continuous Auditing of SSH-Servers To Mitigate Brute-Force Attacks
  Phuong Cao, Yuming Wu, Subho Banerjee, Alex Withers, Justin Azoff, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2019
  PDF   Talk   Press
• SVAuth: A Single-Sign-On Integration Solution with Runtime Verification
  Shuo Chen, Matt McCutchen, Phuong Cao, Shaz Qadeer, and Ravishankar Iyer
  International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV), 2017
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  Blackhat Europe presentation
• Preemptive intrusion detection: theoretical framework and real-world measurements
  Phuong Cao, Eric Badger, Adam Slagell, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer
  ACM Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSOS), 2015
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• Security Monitoring for Virtual Machines Using Hardware Architectural Invariants
  Cuong Pham, Zachary Estrada, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar Iyer
  IEEE Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2014
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Magazine articles and workshops

• Building Reliable and Secure Virtual Machines Using Architectural Invariants
  Cuong Pham, Zachary Estrada, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar Iyer
  IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P) Magazine, 2014
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• Toward a high availability cloud: Techniques and challenges
  Cuong Pham, Phuong Cao, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar Iyer
  IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2012
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