Journal Articles

Application-Aware Anomaly Detection of Sensor Measurements in Cyber-Physical Systems

Detection errors such as false alarms and undetected faults are inevitable in any practical anomaly detection system. These errors can create potentially significant problems in …

Amin Ghafouri
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A Game-Theoretic Approach for Integrity Assurance in Resource-Bounded Systems

Assuring communication integrity is a central problem in security. However, overhead costs associated with cryptographic primitives used towards this end introduce significant …

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Aron Laszka
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Scheduling Resource-Bounded Monitoring Devices for Event Detection and Isolation in Networks

In networked systems, monitoring devices such as sensors are typically deployed to monitor various target locations. Targets are the points in the physical space at which events of …

Waseem Abbas
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Monitoring Stealthy Diffusions

A broad variety of problems, such as targeted marketing and the spread of viruses and malware, have been modeled as maximizing the reach of diffusion through a network. In …

Nika Haghtalab
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Scheduling Battery-Powered Sensor Networks for Minimizing Detection Delays

Sensor networks monitoring spatially-distributed physical systems often comprise battery-powered sensor devices. To extend lifetime, battery power may be conserved using sleep …

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Aron Laszka
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Devising Effective Policies for Bug-Bounty Platforms and Security Vulnerability Discovery

Bug-bounty programs have the potential to harvest the effort and diverse knowledge of thousands of independent security researchers, but running them at scale is challenging due to …

Mingyi Zhao
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Adaptive Steganography and Steganalysis with Fixed-Size Embedding

We analyze a two-player zero-sum game between a steganographer, Alice, and a steganalyst, Eve. In this game, Alice wants to hide a secret message of length $k$ in a binary …

Benjamin Johnson
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Network Topology Vulnerability/Cost Tradeoff: Model, Application, and Computational Complexity

Technological networks (e.g. telephone and sensor networks, Internet) have provided modern society with increased efficiency, but have also exposed us to the risks posed by their …

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Aron Laszka
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Secure Team Composition to Thwart Insider Threats and Cyberespionage

We develop a formal non-deterministic game model for secure team composition to counter cyber-espionage and to protect organizational secrets against an attacker who tries to …

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Aron Laszka
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