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Cyber Security Awareness Week

ConnectionsCSAWResearch Award

Research Award

Open to: high school, undergraduate, and graduate students located in the continental U.S.
Registration deadline: October 10, 2009
Submission deadlines: Abstracts due October 10; Final posters due from finalists October 31 (see below for submission details)
Fnalists:  Finalists have been announced; see below for full list
Team captain/contact for questions: csaw_research@isis.poly.edu

Student researchers are encouraged to submit poster abstracts covering recent or ongoing research or experience in all areas relating to the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned. Posters that have been reviewed and accepted will be presented by one of the authors during the CSAW research poster session and will compete for the CSAW Research Award. We also encourage submissions by student authors of recent papers in related areas published since September 2008. 

And the Winners Are

 
Name
School
Paper | Poster (click links to download pdfs)
1st Place
 Baris Coskun NYU-Poly Friends of An Enemy: Identifying Local Members of Peer-to-Peer Botnets Using Mutual Contacts | poster
2nd Place
 Mike Ter Louw University of Illinois at Chicago BLUEPRINT: Robust Prevention of Cross-site Scripting Attacks for Existing Browsers | poster
3rd Place
 Sriram Lakshmanan Georgia Institute of Technology Securing Wireless Data Networks against Eavesdropping using Smart Antennas | poster
Honorable Mention
 Patrick Gage Kelley Carnegie Mellon University A “Nutrition Label” for Privacy | poster
Honorable Mention
 Daniela Alvim Seabra de Oliveira University of California Davis Protecting Kernel Code and Data with a Virtualization-Aware Collaborative Operating System | poster

Finalists

Name
School
Paper | Poster (click links to download pdfs)
Daniela Alvim Seabra de Oliveira University of California Davis Protecting Kernel Code and Data with a Virtualization-Aware Collaborative Operating System | poster
Eugene Y. Vasserman University of Minnesota Membership-concealing Overlay Networks | poster
Michael Paik New York University Signet: Low-cost Auditable Transactions Using SIMs and Mobile Phones | poster
Mike Ter Louw University of Illinois at Chicago BLUEPRINT: Robust Prevention of Cross-site Scripting Attacks for Existing Browsers | poster
Patrick Gage Kelley Carnegie Mellon University A “Nutrition Label” for Privacy | poster
Sang Kil Cha Carnegie Mellon University SplitScreen: Enabling Efficient, Distributed Malware Detection | poster
Thomas Moyer Pennsylvania State University Scalable Web Content Attestation | poster
Sriram Lakshmanan Georgia Institute of Technology Securing Wireless Data Networks against Eavesdropping using Smart Antennas | poster
Xi Xiong The Pennsylvania State University SHELF: Preserving Business Continuity and Availability in an Intrusion Recovery System | poster
NYU-Poly Finalists    
Baris Coskun NYU-Poly   Friends of An Enemy: Identifying Local Members of Peer-to-Peer Botnets Using Mutual Contacts | poster
Jon Voris NYU-Poly We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: Implications of Data Remanence on the Use of RAM for True Random Number Generation on RFID Tags | poster

Prizes

Master of Science scholarships for students who attend NYU-Poly:
  • 1st place: $5,000
  • 2nd place: $3,000
  • 3rd place: $3,000
Cash prizes for winners: 
  • 1st place: $500
  • 2nd place: $250
  • 3rd place: $100

Travel Grants

Each finalist will receive a travel grant to offset the cost of attending the awards ceremony, where the first-, second-, and third-place place winners will be announced, along with a bonus prize winner. Finalists must be present at the awards ceremony to redeem their prizes.

Rules

  • Entries can be a product of the student's coursework, research, or area of interest
  • Entries cannot be a result of paid employment
  • The main author of the poster must be a currently enrolled student
  • One poster may be entered per main author
  • Finalist posters have to be presented by one of the authors during the CSAW research poster session on Awards Day
  • Papers accompanied by disclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as public.

Judges

Grady Summers, Chief Information Security Officer, General Electric | Bio
Sanjay Macwan, Assistant Vice President, AT&T Chief Security Office | Bio
Dr. Parag Pruthi, Founder and CEO of Niksun Inc | Bio
Chester J. Maciag, Chief of the Cyber Offense Branch, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Lab | Bio

Judging Criteria

All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, correctness, and presentation. In addition to citing relevant published work, authors should relate their submission to any other relevant submissions of theirs in other venues that are under review at the same time as their submission to the symposium.

Submission Details

Abstract: Please submit the title and abstract of your conference paper, full citation, and a link to the published version to csaw_research@isis.poly.edu by October 10

Posters (for finalists only): You will need to include the name and logo of the sponsoring educational institution. The poster dimensions: 36" x 25" (+/-5"). Authors of accepted posters will be sent further information about how to prepare and format posters for the finals of the competition.

Last Year's Winners + Finalists

1st Place - Suhas Mathur, Rutgers University
2nd Place - Randy Smith, University of Wisconsin
3rd Place - Michael Toomim, University of Washington
Honorable Mention - Sarvjeet Singh, Purdue University
Honorable Mention - Basak Oztan, University of Rochester

Finalists
A. Emir Diri, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Yagiz Sutcu, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Basak Oztan, University ofRochester
Sarvjeet Singh, Purdue University
Newton Campbell Jr., State University of New York at Buffalo
Peter Williams, Stony Brook University
Randy Smith, University of Wisconsin, Maryland
Liu Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology
Michael Toomim, University of Washington
Orhan Bulan, University of Rochester
HeeChang Shin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Xiuyuan Zheng, Stevens Institute of Technology
Qi Guo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Suhas Mathur, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey