Joshua Serratelli Schiffman

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I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University, where I am a member of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Lab. I am currently advised by Dr. Trent Jaeger.

My current research focuses on distributed system security including application integrity and information flow security. In particular, I have been examining how to ensure application running on highly scalable virtualized infrastructures (i.e. cloud computing) can be proven secure with respect to specific security and integrity criteria. In the past I have researched trusted computing topics including ways of using the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to report information flow policies and establish trust between machines on an Internet scale. During my undergraduate program, I explored various research topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Databases.

News
December 7, 2009 - I presented my paper Justifying Integrity Using a Virtual Machine Verifier at ACSAC in Honolulu, HI. [Slides]

October 15, 2009 - I have been awarded the 2009 ACM CCS Student Travel Grant.

October 12, 2009 - I have been awarded the 2009 ACM CCS Workshop Student Travel Grant.

August 26, 2009 - My papers Justifying Integrity Using a Virtual Machine Verifier and Scaleable Web Content Attestations have been accepted to ACSAC '09!

July 15, 2009 - I have been awarded a Student Travel Grant to the 18th USENIX Security Symposium in Montreal, QC Canada.

April, 17 2009 - I have awarded a Student Travel Grant to the 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

October 7, 2008 - I presented my VM integrity verifier research at the NSRC Industry Day .

July 15, 2008 - Our paper, Valid Scope Computation for Location-Dependent Spatial Query in Mobile Broadcast Environments, has been accepted at the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).

July 9, 2008 - I have been awarded a Student Travel Grant to the 17th USENIX Security Symposium in San Jose, CA.

March 7, 2008 - Our paper, Measuring Integrity on Mobile Phone Systems has been accepted to appear at the 13th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies (SACMAT).

October 16, 2007 - I presented my integrity management research at NSRC Industry Day .

August 27, 2007 - Our paper "Establishing and Sustaining System Integrity via Root of Trust Installation", has been accepted to the 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).

July 28, 2007 - Our paper, Protecting Users From "Themselves," has been accepted to the 1st Computer Security Architecture Workshop.

July 5, 2007 - I have been awarded a Student Travel Grant to this year's USENIX Security Symposium.

April 18, 2007 - We have made a TR of our paper "Establishing and Sustaining System Integrity via Root of Trust Installation"

February 16, 2007 - The journal version of our Nearest Surrounder paper has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Journal of System and Software.

 
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Clarke's Third Law of Prediction