{"597034":{"#nid":"597034","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SCS Students Kick-Off Cybersecurity Demo Day","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEleven School of Computer Science (SCS) students competed in phase one of Demo Day at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/2017-cyber-security-summit\u0022\u003ECyber Security Summit\u003C\/a\u003E on September 27. Showcasing research posters, the 16 entrants were all vying for the chance to win up to $125,000 in startup funding, grants, and mentorship toward commercializing their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy hosts \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cyber.gatech.edu\/cyber-demo-day\u0022\u003EDemo Day\u003C\/a\u003E in the spring semester, the summit was the first opportunity for students to receive feedback on research from industry professionals and investors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a good way to say involved in the cybersecurity community,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~snewman36\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStacey Truex\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a SCS Ph.D. student who competed with her project on privacy-preserving decision tree ensembles. \u0026ldquo;You aren\u0026rsquo;t going to accomplish anything just staring at your computer on your own.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESummit attendees voted on the most compelling projects, with the top three receiving $500 cash and immediate advancement to the spring competition. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/cybersecurity-demo-day-phase-1-results\u0022\u003Ewinners\u003C\/a\u003E were \u003Cstrong\u003EMajid Ahmadi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem\u003ETackling Cybersecurity Threats in Smart Grids\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.internetgovernance.org\/people\/karim-farhat\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKarim Farhat\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cem\u003EInternet of Things Security Management Dashboard\u003C\/em\u003E, and CS student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tonytan.io\/about\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETony Zhaocheng Tan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem\u003EPhish or Fish: Tackling Phishing as a Usability Problem\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 16 other competitors can still advance to the final round if they attend six coaching sessions between now and April. Some SCS research highlights:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cem\u003EPrivacy Preserving Deep Learning\u003C\/em\u003E by SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~lyu79\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELei Yu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Deep learning has led to breakthroughs in AI from speech recognition to game playing \u0026mdash; but by going through big data that often contain sensitive personal information. Yu\u0026rsquo;s neural network model preserves data privacy by applying differential privacy techniques to training algorithms while stay maintaining accuracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cem\u003ERAIN: Redefinable Attack Investigation with On-Demand Inter-process Information Flow Tracking\u003C\/em\u003E by SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/yangji\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYang Ji\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Detecting advanced cyber attacks requires detailed and accurate investigation. The RAIN system is a precise and fine-grained way to analyze cybercrime because it goes down the instruction level while still maintaining runtime efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cem\u003EPrivacyZone: A High Performance and Light-Weight Location Privacy System in the Era of Internet of Things\u003C\/em\u003E by SCS Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emreyigitoglu.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmre Yigitoglu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: \u0026nbsp;Location data is sensitive and\u0026nbsp;continuous location exposure opens the door for potential misuse such as\u0026nbsp;inference about a user\u0026rsquo;s medical conditions.\u0026nbsp;For example, if a person visited the hospital a lot, location data could expose they might be ill. PrivacyZone provide a suite of algorithms for constructing personalized\u0026nbsp;privacy zones and enforcing privacy\u0026nbsp;protection for mobile users\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cem\u003EAutomating Open-Source Software Risk Management with OSSSanitizer\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by SCS Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~rduan9\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERuian Duan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Open-source software eases development for thousands of mobile and desktop applications, but also increases security and legal risks. OSSSanitizer pulls open-source software together from public sources like GitHub or NVD and combs through for license violations or zero day vulnerabilities. The tool\u0026rsquo;s unique hierarchical indexing makes it accurate and scalable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E-\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhish or Fish: Tackling Phishing as a Usability Problem\u003C\/em\u003E by undergraduate Tony Zhaocheng Tan: Phishing is often the start of many big breaches, like the Democratic National Convention hack. This project is working with the Office for Information Technology\u0026nbsp;to prevent users from falling for phishing scams by replacing external links with an interstitial page containing site-specific information. This empowers users to make an informed decision about whether a website is safe to visit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-\u003Cem\u003ErtCaptcha: A Real-Time Captcha Based Liveness Detection System\u003C\/em\u003E by SCS Ph.D. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/content\/erkam-uzun\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EErkam Uzun\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: Facial and voice recognition are the future of security but can still be easy to evade using deep learning. rtCaptcha introduces the common screening feature of Captchas to this process, which stalls machines from breaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students competed in Demo Day to share their cybersecurity research."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2017-10-06 13:11:40","changed_gmt":"2017-10-06 13:16:10","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"597039":{"id":"597039","type":"image","title":"Demo Day kick-off","body":null,"created":"1507295731","gmt_created":"2017-10-06 13:15:31","changed":"1507295731","gmt_changed":"2017-10-06 13:15:31","alt":"An SCS student presents his Demo Day poster.","file":{"fid":"227550","name":"demodaycss17.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demodaycss17.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demodaycss17.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":580426,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/demodaycss17.JPG?itok=66IxojGz"}}},"media_ids":["597039"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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\u003ETess Malone, Communications Offier\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}