Statement of Research Interests
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Conventional wisdom gives us the principle of Design for Security : to create secure software, design it to be secure from the ground up. To date, however, only a small fraction of software developed has followed this principle. Diverse security requirements and economic pressures often force software developers to abandon security and focus instead on functionality and performance. As a result, software is deployed with inadequate or non-existent security mechanisms and is thus prone to attacks. Even software originally designed to be secure suffers when code modifications and everchanging security requirements break key design assumptions [6], thus enabling potential attacks. Our increasing reliance on software infrastructures will only cause the problems posed by insecure legacy software to compound in the future. My research agenda seeks to mitigate these problems by securing legacy software. I have developed techniques both to analyze security properties of legacy software and to transform it to make it more secure. My research demonstrates that these techniques are effective at improving the security of widely-deployed legacy software. For example, I added authorization checks to the X11 server using the techniques that I developed, and showed that it resisted attacks that were otherwise possible. The following sections describe specific areas in which I have made contributions.
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