[nets] [Nets-seminars] Re: Seminar today : Vigilante: End-to-End

[Adam Greenhalgh]

sorry, meeting in 4.02 !!!

Adam

On 12/7/05, Adam Greenhalgh <a.greenhalgh at cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> This is in under 30 mins.
>
> Adam
>
> On 12/7/05, Adam Greenhalgh <a.greenhalgh at cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > This will take place in room 6.12 from 4-5 pm today.
> >
> > -- Adam
> >
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> >
> >
> > Speaker: Manuel Costa - Microsoft Research, Cambridge
> > Title: Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet Worms
> > Abstract: Worm containment must be automatic because worms can spread
> > too fast for humans to respond. Recent work has proposed network-level
> > techniques to automate worm containment; these techniques have
> > limitations because there is no information about the vulnerabilities
> > exploited by worms at the network level. We propose Vigilante, a new
> > end-to-end approach to contain worms automatically that addresses
> > these limitations. Vigilante relies on collaborative worm detection at
> > end hosts, but does not require hosts to trust each other. Hosts run
> > instrumented software to detect worms and broadcast self-certifying
> > alerts (SCAs) upon worm detection. SCAs are proofs of vulnerability
> > that can be inexpensively verified by any vulnerable host. When hosts
> > receive an SCA, they generate filters that block infection by
> > analysing the SCA-guided execution of the vulnerable software. We show
> > that Vigilante can automatically contain fast-spreading worms that
> > exploit unknown vulnerabilities without blocking innocuous traffic.
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