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==Course Outline==

The outline for the Fall 2020 run of Adaptive Security is available [[Adaptive Security Course Outline (2020F)|here]].

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==Research Journal==

Your research journal is due by 9 PM the night before class.  If you need more time please message me (on Teams) that you are running late.  Entries are graded out of 4.  Make sure to date stamp your entries.  You may have multiple entries between classes; I will look at all entries since the last class.

For instructions on reviewing papers, see [[Adaptive Security 2020F: Paper Review Instructions|here]].

==Literature Review==

To help you write a literature review or the background of a research paper, read the following:
* Harvey, "What Is a Literature Review?" [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~missy/WritingaLiteratureReview.doc (DOC)] [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~missy/Writing_a_Literature_Review.ppt (PPT)]
* [http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/specific-types-of-writing/literature-review Taylor, "The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It"]

==Class Schedule==

===[[Adaptive Security 2020F Lecture 1|September 10, 2020]]===

Introduction

===September 15, 2020===

* A. K. Dewdney, [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec/readings/akdewdney/index.html Core Wars] (local copy)
** [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969361 In the game called Core War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits.]  (Scientific American, May 1984)
** [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24967583 A Core War bestiary of viruses, worms and other threats to computer memories] (Sciencific American, March 1985)
** [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24979289 A program called MICE nibbles its way to victory at the first Core War tournament] (Scientific American, January 1987)
** [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24987184 Of worms, viruses and Core War] (Scientific American, March 1989)

===Adaptive Security 2020F Lecture 3|September 17, 2020===

* Tom Ray, Tierra (1992): [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/tierra-92-08-042.pdf Pixelated but with Figures], [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec/readings/tierra.pdf Clearer Text]
* [[Adaptive Security 2020F: Choosing a Project|Choosing a Project]]

===September 22, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/neti-hotsec2012.pdf Neti, "Software diversity: Security, Entropy, and Game Theory."] (HotSec 2012)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/bfoster-gecco-2010.pdf Foster, "Object-Level Recombination of Commodity Applications."] (GECCO 2010)

===September 24, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/oda-asia-08.pdf Oda, "Content Provider Conflict on the Modern Web."] (ASIA 2008)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/oda-visp-hotsec2010.pdf Oda, "Visual Security Policy for the Web."] (HotSec 2010)

===September 29, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/oakland96.pdf Forrest, "A Sense of Self for Unix Processes."] (Oakland 1996)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/uss-2000.pdf Somayaji, "Automated Response Using System-Call Delays."] (USENIX Security 2000)

===October 1, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/amatrawy-acns-05.pdf Matrawy, "Mitigating Network Denial-of-Service Through Diversity-Based Traffic Management."] (ACNS 2005)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/hijazi-icc08.pdf Hijazi, "Discovering Packet Structure through Lightweight Hierarchical Clustering."] (ICC 2008)

===October 6, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/somayaji-cset2009.pdf Somayaji, "Evaluating Security Products with Clinical Trials."] (CSET 2009)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/levesque-ccs2013.pdf Lévesque, "A clinical study of risk factors related to malware infections."] (CCS 2013)

===October 8, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/wagner-mimicry.pdf Wagner & Soto, "Mimicry attacks on host-based intrusion detection systems."] (CCS 2002)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/wagner-static.pdf Wagner & Dean, "Intrusion detection via static analysis."] (Oakland 2001)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/forrest-acsac2008.pdf Forrest, "The Evolution of System-call Monitoring."] (ACSAC 2008)

===October 13, 15, & 20, 2020===

Review two papers per class following [[Adaptive Security 2020F: Paper Review Instructions|this template]].  Post your reviews on the Readings Wiki on Teams (in the Readings channel).

===October 22, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/findlay-ccsw2020.pdf Findlay, "bpfbox: Simple Precise Process Confinement in eBPF."] (CCSW 2020)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/chao2003-infoimmune.pdf Chao, "Information Immune Systems."] (Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2003)

===November 3, 2020===

Look at the papers in the [https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec2000/tech.html USENIX Security 2000] and [https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec10/tech/ USENIX Security 2010] as compared to the papers in [https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/technical-sessions USENIX Security 2020].
* How have the kinds of papers changed over the years?
* How has the ratio of attack to defence papers changed?
* Has the "practicality" of papers changed?

===November 17, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/carver2016.pdf Carver, "Establishing a baseline for measuring advancement in the science of security: an analysis of the 2015 IEEE security & privacy proceedings."] (HotSoS 2016)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/burcham2017.pdf Burcham, "Characterizing scientific reporting in security literature: An analysis of ACM CCS and IEEE S&P papers."] (HotSoS 2017)

===November 19, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/tan-why6.pdf Tan & Maxion, "'Why 6?': Defining the Operational Limits of stide, an Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detector."] (Oakland 2002)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/sekar-automaton.pdf Sekar,"A Fast Automaton-Based Method for Detecting Anomalous Program Behaviors."] (Oakland 2001)

===November 24, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/lippmann-raid00.pdf Lippmann et al., Analysis and Results of the 1999 DARPA Off-Line Intrusion Detection Evaluation for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time.] (RAID 2000)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/mchugh-darpa.pdf McHugh, Testing Intrusion Detection Systems: A Critique of the 1998 and 1999 DARPA Intrusion Detection System Evaluations as Performed by Lincoln Laboratory.] (ACM TISSEC 2000)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/axelsson-base-rate.pdf Axelsson, The Base-Rate Fallacy and the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection.] (ACM TISSEC 2000)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/id-2007w/readings/mahoney-darpa.pdf Mahoney & Chan, An Analysis of the 1999 DARPA/Lincoln Laboratory Evaluation Data for Network Anomaly Detection.] (RAID 2003)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/brown-cisda2009.pdf Brown, "Analysis of the 1999 DARPA/Lincoln Laboratory IDS Evaluation Data with NetADHICT."] (CISDA 2009)

===November 26, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/pu88.pdf Pu, Massalin, & Ioannidis, "The Synthesis Kernel."] (Computing Systems 1988)

===December 1, 2020===

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/Brooks-AIM-864.pdf Brooks, "A Robust Layered Control System For A Mobile Robot."] (MIT 1985)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/brooks1991-representation.pdf Brooks, "Intelligence Without Representation."] (AI 1991)
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/adapsec/readings/brooks-sab1991.pdf Brooks, "Challenges for complete creature architectures."] (SAB 1991)

===December 3, 2020===



===December 8, 2020===

Presentations 1

===December 10, 2020===

Presentations 2

==Project Milestones==

* '''September 18, 2020:''' Areas of interest
* '''September 29, 2020:''' Elevator Pitch
* '''November 2, 2020:''' Literature Review
* '''December 1, 2020:''' Tests/Preliminary Work
* '''December 23, 2020:''' Final Project Report

==Other Readings==

Here are some optional readings, most with a more biological bent:

* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/pubs/secsystems-final.pdf Somayaji, "How to Win an Evolutionary Arms Race."] (IEEE S&P, Nov-Dec 2004)
* Margulis & Sagan, ''Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species'' ([https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/lynn-margulis/acquiring-genomes/9780786722600/ Basic Books], 2002-2008): [https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/DS-VehE00ncC Google Books], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSoHxLO15pY Talk on YouTube] from Feb. 20, 2004 at the [https://www.isepp.org/Pages/03-04%20Pages/MargulisSagan.html University of Massachusetts], [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec-2004/readings/acquiringgenomes-review.pdf book review by Axel Meyer]


Note that some of the content of this course came from a previous course, Biological Approaches to Computer Security:
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec-2004/ Winter 2004]
* [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/biosec/ Winter 2005]
The focus of this class will be on designing and building actual defenses so we won't cover many of these readings.  However, you may want to take a look at them for inspiration.