Department of Computer Science

Selected Topics in Network Security CS 6/79995 Fall 2009

References:

• Educational Resources:
  1. RFC2828 - Internet Security Glossary.
  2. RFC2196 - Site Security Handbook.
  3. RFC2401 - Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol.
  4. Levente Buttyan and Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks. 2007.
  5. Christos Douligeris and Dimitrios N. Serpanos (Editors). Network Security: Current Status and Future Directions, IEEE Press 2007.
  6. Gert DeLaet, Gert X. Schauwers, Network Security Fundamentals, Cisco Press, 2004.
  7. Saadat Malik, Network Security Principles and Practices, Cisco Press, 2003.
  8. Krishna Sankar, Sri Sundaralingam, Andrew Balinsky, Darrin Miller, Cisco wireless LAN security Cisco Press, 2005.
  9. Sean Convery, Network Security Architectures: Expert Guidance on Designing Secure Networks, Cisco Press, 2004.
  10. Richard Bejtlich, The Tao Of Network Security Monitoring : Beyond Intrusion Detection , Addison-Wesley, 2004.
  11. Jon Edney and William A. Arbaugh, Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i, Addison-Wesley, 2004.
  12. Eric Cole, Ronald L. Krutz, Network security bible, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
  13. Jan Harrington, Network Security : A Practical Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
  14. NIST Computer Security Division.
  
  
• Web Resources:
  1. CAIDA: Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, Security
  2. CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team
  
  
• Reserach/Lecture Resources Related to the Selected Topics: (articles with boldface will be covered in class).
  1. Covert Operations
  1. Serdar Cabuk, Carla E. Brodley, and Clay Shields. IP covert channel detection. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 12(4):22:1–22:29, April 2009
  2. Toby Ehrenkranz and Jun Li. On the state of IP spoofing defense. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 9(2):6:1–6:29, May 2009.
  2. Denial of Service Attacks
  1. Vinay M. Igure, and Ronald D. Williams, Taxonomies of Attacks and Vulnerabilities in Computer Systems, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 10, no. 1, 2008.
  2. Stephen Specht and Ruby Lee, Taxonomies of Distributed Denial of Service Networks, Attacks, Tools, and Countermeasures, Techical Report, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton, 2003.
  3. Jelena Mirkovic and Peter L. Reiher, A taxonomy of DDoS attack and DDoS defense mechanisms,Computer Communication Review, 34(2):39-53,2004.
  4. Tao Peng and Christopher Leckie and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Survey of network-based defense mechanisms countering the DoS and DDoS problems, ACM Computing Surveys, 39(1), p. 3:1-3:42, April 2007.
  3. Network Intrusion Detection Techniques
  1. Pele Li and Mehdi Salour and Xiao Su, A Survey of Internet Worm Detection and Containment, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 10, no. 1, 2008.
  2. Stuart E. Schechter, Jaeyeon Jung, and Arthur W. Berger. Fast detection of scanning worm infections 7th International Symposium, {RAID} 2004, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 15-17, 2004. Proceedings.
  3. Vern Paxson, Bro: a system for detecting network intruders in real-time, Computer Networks, Amsterdam, Netherlands, vol 31, 1999.
  4. Jaeyeon Jung, Vern Paxson, Arthur W. Berger, and Hari Balakrishnan, Fast Portscan Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2004.
  4. Route Security
  1. K. Butler, T. Farley, P. McDaniel, and J. Rexford. A Survey of BGP Security and Solutions, Technical Report, AT&T Bell Labs, 2005.
  2. Martin O. Nicholes and Biswanath Mukherjee, A Survey of Security Techniques for the Border Gateway, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 11, no. 1, 2009.
  5. Wireless Security
  1. Yun Zhou and Yuguang Fang and Yanchao Zhang, Securing wireless sensor networks: A survey, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 10, no. 3, 2008.
  2. Yong Wang and Garhan Attebury and Byrav Ramamurthy, A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 8, no. 4, 2006.
  3. Alfred Loo, The Myths and Trust of Wireless Security, Communications of the ACME, vol 51, no. 2, 2008.
  4. Xiangqian Chen, Kia Makki, Kang Yen, and Niki Pissinou, Sensor Network Security: A Survey IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 11, no. 2, 2009.
  5. Javier López, Jianying Zhou, (Editors), Wireless Sensor Network Security, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2007.
  6. Todd R. Andel and Alec Yasinsac, Surveying Security Analysis Techniques in MANET Routing Protocols IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 9, no. 4, 2007.
  7. Loay Abusalah, Ashfaq Khokhar, and Mohsen Guizani, A Survey of Secure Mobile Ad Hoc Routing Protocols IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol 10, no. 4, 2008.
  6. Traffic Analysis
  7. MAC Attacks
  8. Secure Overlay Services
  1. Keromytis, A.D.; Misra, V.; Rubenstein, D, SoS: an architecture for mitigating DDoS attacks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 22, Issue 1, Jan. 2004.
  9. Information Security
  1. Jonathan Katz, Moti Yung (Editoprs), Applied Cryptography and Network Security , 5th International Conference, ACNS 2007, Zhuhai, China, June 5-8, 2007.