{"535881":{"#nid":"535881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Develop Big Data Protection Protocol for the Cloud","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have been awarded a $1.19 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to devise privacy protection protocols for big data cloud computing throughout all phases of data processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKnown as PrivacyGuard, the project is a first step toward establishing a practical way of ensuring end-to-end privacy for big data computations. To achieve this, researchers at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E are working to develop protocols that split the responsibility for data privacy protection into three areas \u2013 data entry, execution, and output.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur goals are to develop practical solutions for enabling a \u2018need to know\u2019 privacy model, and to protect private data from any unauthorized or unintended purposes in the big data life cycle,\u201d said School of Computer Science Professor and Lead Principal Investigator \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~lingliu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELing Liu\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cBy creating a practical and systematic framework with multiple checkpoints, we increase our opportunities to catch and eliminate threats.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiu and her colleague on the project, Georgia Tech Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~calton\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECalton Pu\u003C\/a\u003E, are affiliates of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Information Security and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E (IISP). The IISP is Georgia Tech\u2019s hub for cybersecurity and data protection research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first step in creating end-to-end protection is to develop proper protocols for entering data so that sensitive information cannot be reconstructed from the final output of a big data computation. The second step is to create procedures that ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and availability are maintained during the execution phase while the information is being processed. The third protocol protects the final product of big data computations by preventing malicious users from being able to glean any sensitive information from a database.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ability to perform efficient big data computations while preserving privacy in the cloud is critical. When these new protocols are in place, new opportunities will emerge for safe and effective data analytics. These opportunities may include healthcare applications that provide personalized medical treatments using an individual\u2019s DNA sequence, or enabling advertisers to create targeted advertisements, without violation of data privacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBig data and cloud computing are becoming more and more ubiquitous,\u201d said Liu. \u201cOnce established, PrivacyGuard research will be integrated into Georgia Tech\u2019s big data systems and analytics courses, contributing to the education of a new generation of data scientists that we hope will become privacy compliance advocates.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Researchers:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Ling Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cem\u003E professor, School of Computer Science, College of Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn internationally recognized expert, Dr. Ling Liu is a professor in the College of Computing\u2019s School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an elected IEEE Fellow. She directs the research program in Distributed Data Intensive Systems program examining research issues and technical challenges in building distributed big data systems, ranging from performance, security, privacy, trust to availability. She has published more than 300 international journal and conference articles and served as a program chair for multiple IEEE and ACM conferences and is currently the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. In addition, Dr. Liu has received numerous awards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and many notable computing organizations. Professor Liu\u0027s current research is primarily sponsored by NSF, IBM, and Intel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Calton Pu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EProfessor and\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003Ethe John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software, School of Computer Science, and co-director of Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalton Pu is currently a professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an elected IEEE fellow. Dr. Pu received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington. He has worked on several projects in systems and database research and provided many contributions to systems research including program specialization and software feedback. Professor Pu\u0027s recent research has focused on automated system management in clouds, information quality, and Big Data in the Internet-of-Things. Dr. Pu has published more than 70 journal papers and book chapters and an additional 280 conference and refereed workshop papers; he has also served on more than 120 program committees. Dr. Pu\u0027s prior research included government projects for DARPA and NSF. In addition, he has conducted industry research for IBM, Intel, and HP.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have been awarded a $1.19 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to devise privacy protection protocols for Big Data cloud computations.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have been awarded a $1.19 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to devise privacy protection protocols."}],"uid":"30267","created_gmt":"2016-05-11 17:00:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:39","author":"Devin Young","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"535871":{"id":"535871","type":"image","title":"Ling Liu","body":null,"created":"1463497200","gmt_created":"2016-05-17 15:00:00","changed":"1475895322","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:22","alt":"Ling Liu","file":{"fid":"88812","name":"lingliu-2016jan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lingliu-2016jan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lingliu-2016jan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":157433,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lingliu-2016jan_0.jpg?itok=_0WsvqOH"}},"50515":{"id":"50515","type":"image","title":"Calton Pu","body":null,"created":"1449175400","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:20","changed":"1475894460","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:00","alt":"Calton Pu","file":{"fid":"128728","name":"calton-pu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/calton-pu_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/calton-pu_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14635,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/calton-pu_1.jpg?itok=55H4xgdX"}}},"media_ids":["535871","50515"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDevin M. 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