{"231171":{"#nid":"231171","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech Information Security Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Turret: A Platform for Automated Adversarial Testing of Distributed Systems and Network Protocols\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E Professor Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENumerous distributed systems and network protocols have been designed and subjected to theoretical analysis and simulations. However, checking the protocol design and testing simulator-based implementations do not guarantee that real-world implementations are free of bugs and vulnerabilities. In order to understand the limitations and increase the robustness of distributed services and network protocols there is benefit in performing adversarial testing. Adversarial testing tests implementations beyond their basic functionality by testing edge cases, boundary conditions, and ultimately performing destructive testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe introduce Turret a platform that provides support for automated adversarial testing for message-passing distributed systems and network protocols. The platform uses a network emulator to create reproducible network conditions and virtualization to run unmodified binaries of the target system. The platform requires the user to provide a description of the protocol messages and corresponding performance metrics. Turret supports a large class of services such as intrusion-tolerant replication, application-layer multicast, file sharing, locality services, and routing protocols, running in both wired and wireless networks. We applied Turret to 5 distributed systems and 3 wireless routing protocols and found a total of 65 attacks and bugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECristina Nita-Rotaru is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University where she established the Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems Laboratory (DS2), and is a member of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Her research lies at the intersection of information security, distributed systems, and computer networks. The overarching goal of her work is designing and building practical distributed systems and network protocols that are robust to failures and attacks while coping with the resource constraints existent in computing systems and networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECristina Nita-Rotaru is a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2006. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of numerous conferences in security, networking and distributed systems. She is currently an Associate Editor for \u003Cem\u003EACM Transaction of Dependable and Secure Computing\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EACM Transactions on Information and System Security\u003C\/em\u003E (exiting), I\u003Cem\u003EEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Computers\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003EElsevier Computer Networks\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cristina Nita-Rotaru of Purdue University will speak on \u0022Turret: A Platform for Automated Adversarial Testing of Distributed Systems and Network Protocols\u0022 on August 30 at 12 noon in Klaus, 1116E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Cristina Nita-Rotaru of Purdue University will speak on \u0022Turret: A Platform for Automated Adversarial Testing of Distributed Systems and Network Protocols\u0022 on August 30 at 12 noon in Klaus, 1116E."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-08-22 15:56:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:04:26","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-08-30T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-08-30T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-08-30T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-08-30 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-08-30 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-08-30 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDoug Blough\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.1271\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:doug.blough@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edoug.blough@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}