CS 690E Readings

We will read various papers during the course of the semester. Some of them will be available on-line and linked in to this page. Others will be on reserve in the Math library.

Required Readings

  1. There Be Dragons; Steven M. Bellovin; Proceedings of the 3rd Usenix Security Symposium; 1992.
  2. An Evening with Berferd; Bill Cheswick; 1992.
  3. An Intrusion-Detection Model, by Dorothy E. Denning, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 13(2), Feb 1987.
  4. A prototype implementation of a network-level Intrusion Detection system, by R. Heady, G. Luger, A. Maccabe, M. Servilla and J. Sturtevant, in University of New Mexico TR CS-91-11, May, 1991.
  5. Foundations of Intrusion Detection, by P. Helman, G.E. Liepins and W. Rochards, in Proceedings of the Fifth Computer Security Foundations Workshop, June, 1992.
  6. USTAT: A Real-Time Intrusion Detection System for UNIX, by Koral Ilgun, MS Thesis, UC Santa Barbara, July 1992.
  7. Knowledge-based Intrusion Detection, by Teresa F. Lunt, R. Jagannathan, Rosanna Lee, Alan Whitehurst and Sherry Listgarten, in Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference, March, 1989
  8. A Real-Time Intrusion Detection Expert System (IDES) -- Final Technical Report, by T. F. Lunt, A. Tamaru, F. Gilham, R. Jagannathan, P. G. Neumann, H. S. Javitz, A. Valdes and T. D. Garvey, in SRI-CSL Technical Report, 1992.
  9. Security Audit Trail Analysis Using Inductively Generated Predictive Rules, by Henry S. Teng, Kaihu Chen and Stephen C Lu, in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, March, 1990.
  10. The Thirty Minute Risk Analysis, by Dan Erwin, in Information Systems Security, 3(3), Fall 1994.

Other readings

There are some other readings you might want to pursue.
  • An index of readings compiled by "aleph1"
  • Informtion on Watcher
  • Information on UNICORN

  • Gene Spafford