Xuxian Jiang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University 890 Oval Drive, Campus Box 8206 Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 Office: Room 2254, EBII Email: Voice: 919-513-7835; Fax: 919-515-7896

- RA Openings Available :

• I am looking for highly motivated students who are interested in doing research in system security. Please email me with your CV or drop by my office if you are interested.

Research

- Current research interests: virtual machines (VMs) and security.

• NICKLE: A VMM-based Kernel Rootkit Defender
• VMscope: "Out-of-the-Box" VM Monitoring and Malware Defense (a demo)
• HoneyMonkey: A VM-based Client-side Honeypot Finding Web Sites That Exploit Browser Vulnerabilities
• vGround: A Virtual Playground for Worm and Malware Behavior Investigation (a demo)
• Collapsar: A VM-based Server-side Honeyfarm and Client-side Honeyfarm

- Selected publications (full list)

• X. Wang, R. Zhang, X. Yang, X. Jiang, and D. Wijesekera "Voice Pharming Attack and the Trust of VoIP," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2008), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2008.
• R. Riley, X. Jiang, and D. Xu, "Guest-Transparent Prevention of Kernel Rootkits with VMM-based Memory Shadowing," Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008), Boston, MA, September 2008. Received Best Paper Award
• Z. Lin, X. Jiang, D. Xu, and X. Zhang, "Automatic Protocol Format Reverse Engineering Through Context-Aware Monitored Execution," Proceedings of the 15th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2008), San Diego, CA, February 2008
• X. Jiang, X. Wang, and D. Xu, "Stealthy Malware Detection Through VMM-Based 'Out-of-the-Box' Semantic View Reconstruction," Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), Alexandria, VA, November 2007.
• X. Jiang, and X. Wang, "'Out-of-the-Box' Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots," Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2007), Queensland, Australia, September 2007.
• Y. M. Wang, D. Beck, X. Jiang, R. Roussev, C. Verbowski, S. Chen, and S. King, "Automated Web Patrol with Strider HoneyMonkeys: Finding Web Sites That Exploit Browser Vulnerabilities," Proceedings of the 13th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2006), San Diego, CA, February 2006.
• X. Jiang, D. Xu, H. J. Wang, and E. H. Spafford, "Virtual Playgrounds for Worm Behavior Investigation," Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2005), Seattle, WA, September 2005.
• X. Jiang and D. Xu, "Collapsar: A VM-Based Architecture for Network Attack Detention Center," Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2004), San Diego, CA, August 2004.

Teaching

- Fall 2008: CSC591S - Operating Systems Security

Service

- TPC Member, ESORICS 2009, Saint Malo, Brittany, France, 2009.
- TPC Member, RAID 2009, Saint-Malo, Britanny, France, 2009.
- TPC Member, WWW 2009, Madrid, Spain, 2009.
- TPC Member, IEEE S&P 2009, Berkeley/Oakland, CA, 2009.
- TPC Member, IEEE ICDCS 2009, Montreal, Canada, 2009.
- TPC Member, ACM VTDS 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, 2009.
- TPC Member, ISOC NDSS 2009, San Diego, CA, 2009.
- TPC Member, ACM VMSEC 2008, Fairfax, VA, 2008.
- TPC Member, ACM STC 2008, Fairfax, VA, 2008.
- TPC Member, IEEE ICDCS 2007, Toronto, Canada, 2007.
- TPC Member - posters,WWW 2007, Alberta, Canada, 2007.

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