University of Texas at Dallas

Going through the research conducted at University of Texas at Dallas to see if there is anything good. A lot of this is the work of Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham.

The entire group is the CyberSecurity and Emergency Prepardness Institute.

Their lab is the Security Analysis and Information Assurance Laboratory (SAIAL). I've heard of Information Assurance before (thats what ISA is all about), but Security Analysis sounds like a distinct sub-field of Security. The SAIAL lab is tempest shielded which is pretty cool.

There is also the Cyber Security Research Center (CSRC). I'm not totally sure what the difference between these 3 things.

The word "policy" doesn't appear anywhere on their research area page. Lots of hardware stuff, Information Assurance stuff, vulnerability analysis/classification, and attack research. I do like the following quote from their Graph Theoretic Problems on Web Graphs research group:

Unfortunately, the typical sequence of “attack, detect, control, and recover” often results in major damages and high costs. This makes it imperative to develop methods that will protect computer systems (especially sensitive ones) from such attacks.

If anything, I like the point they're trying to make that existing approaches just don't cut it when the stakes are high and with modern complex networked systems. This leads in to our design-time-based-approaches.

Interesting researchers:

• Wei-She - ERP Security
• Srinivasan Iyer - Extended Role Based Access Control for ERP Security
• Jianmin Zhu - Grid Security and web Services
• Ashraful Alam - Secure geospatial web services
• Pavan chitumalla - Geospatial data management for emergency preparedness

Possibly interesting papers based on titles (full publication list at DBLP is extensive):

• Ashraful Alam, Ganesh Subbiah, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan: Reasoning with semantics-aware access control policies for geospatial web services. SWS 2006: 69-76 [review]
  
• Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan, Murat Kantarcioglu, Sonia Chib, Jiawei Han, Sang Son: Real-Time Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination for Intelligence Analysis. HICSS 2009: 1-12
• Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Murat Kantarcioglu, Latifur Khan: Building a Geosocial Semantic Web for Military Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations. PAISI 2009: 1
• Pavan Kumar Chitumalla, Douglas Harris, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan: Emergency Response Applications: Dynamic Plume Modeling and Real-Time Routing. IEEE Internet Computing 12(1): 38-44 (2008)
• Ernesto Damiani, Alban Gabillon, Anne Anderson, David Staggs, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Marianne Winslett: Directions and trends of XML and web service security. SWS 2006: 1-2