R. Sekar

Most-cited papers

Address Obfuscation: An Efficient Approach to Combat a Broad Range of Memory Error Exploits
Sandeep Bhatkar, Daniel C. DuVarney, R. Sekar
2003USENIX Security Symposium667 citations
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HOLMES: Real-Time APT Detection through Correlation of Suspicious Information Flows
Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Rigel Gjomemo, Birhanu Eshete, R. Sekar +1 more
2018IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy657 citations Open access
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A fast automaton-based method for detecting anomalous program behaviors
R. Sekar, M. Bendre, Dinakar Dhurjati, P. Bollineni
2001Proceedings 2001 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. S&P 2001652 citations
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Control Flow Integrity for COTS Binaries
Mingwei Zhang, R. Sekar
2013USENIX Security Symposium579 citations
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Code-pointer integrity
Volodymyr Kuznetzov, László Szekeres, Mathias Payer, George Candea +2 more
2014USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation568 citations
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Specification-based anomaly detection: a new approach for detecting network intrusions
R. Sekar, Ajay K. Gupta, J. Frullo, T. Shanbhag +3 more
2002Conference on Computer and Communications Security491 citations
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Taint-Enhanced Policy Enforcement: A Practical Approach to Defeat a Wide Range of Attacks
Wei Xu, Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar
2006USENIX Security Symposium412 citations
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Efficient Techniques for Comprehensive Protection from Memory Error Exploits
Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar, Daniel C. DuVarney
2005USENIX Security Symposium363 citations
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SLEUTH: Real-time Attack Scenario Reconstruction from COTS Audit Data
M. Hossain, Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Junao Wang, Birhanu Eshete +4 more
2018USENIX Security Symposium346 citations
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Model-Carrying Code A Practical Approach for Safe Execution of Untrusted Applications
R. Sekar, V. Venkatakrishnan
2004209 citations
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Combating Dependence Explosion in Forensic Analysis Using Alternative Tag Propagation Semantics
M. Hossain, S. Sheikhi, R. Sekar
2020IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy204 citations Open access
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Fast and automated generation of attack signatures: a basis for building self-protecting servers
Zhen-Kai Liang, R. Sekar
2005Conference on Computer and Communications Security197 citations
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Data Space Randomization
Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar
2008International Conference on Detection of intrusions and malware, and vulnerability assessment191 citations
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An efficient and backwards-compatible transformation to ensure memory safety of C programs
Wei Xu, Daniel C. DuVarney, R. Sekar
2004SIGSOFT '04/FSE-12176 citations
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On the Limits of Information Flow Techniques for Malware Analysis and Containment
L. Cavallaro, P. Saxena, R. Sekar
2008International Conference on Detection of intrusions and malware, and vulnerability assessment158 citations Open access
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An Efficient Black-box Technique for Defeating Web Application Attacks
R. Sekar
2009Network and Distributed System Security Symposium155 citations
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Dataflow anomaly detection
Sandeep Bhatkar, Abhishek Chaturvedi, R. Sekar
2006IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy149 citations
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Eternal War in Memory
László Szekeres, Mathias Payer, Lenx Tao Wei, R. Sekar
2014IEEE Security and Privacy135 citations
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Model-based analysis of configuration vulnerabilities
C. Ramakrishnan, R. Sekar
2002Journal of computing and security131 citations
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Efficient fine-grained binary instrumentationwith applications to taint-tracking
P. Saxena, R. Sekar, V. Puranik
2008IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization109 citations
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Light-weight bounds checking
N. Hasabnis, Ashish Misra, R. Sekar
2012IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization105 citations
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A practical mimicry attack against powerful system-call monitors
Chetan Parampalli, R. Sekar, Rob Johnson
2008ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security103 citations
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PAriCheck: an efficient pointer arithmetic checker for C programs
Yves Younan, Pieter Philippaerts, L. Cavallaro, R. Sekar +2 more
2010ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security101 citations Open access
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Isolated program execution: an application transparent approach for executing untrusted programs
Zhen-Kai Liang, V. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar
200319th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2003. Proceedings.90 citations
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A platform for secure static binary instrumentation
Mingwei Zhang, Rui Qiao, N. Hasabnis, R. Sekar
2014International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments87 citations
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One-Way Isolation: An Effective Approach for Realizing Safe Execution Environments
Wei-Qing Sun, Zhen-Kai Liang, V. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar
2005Network and Distributed System Security Symposium77 citations
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A Framework for Building Privacy-Conscious Composite Web Services
Wei Xu, V. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar, I. Ramakrishnan
20062006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06)75 citations
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Control Flow and Code Integrity for COTS binaries: An Effective Defense Against Real-World ROP Attacks
Mingwei Zhang, R. Sekar
2015Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference68 citations Open access
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An Approach for Detecting Self-propagating Email Using Anomaly Detection
Ajay K. Gupta, R. Sekar
2003International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection56 citations
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Provably Correct Runtime Enforcement of Non-interference Properties
V. Venkatakrishnan, Wei Xu, Daniel C. DuVarney, R. Sekar
2006International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing53 citations Open access
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Function Interface Analysis: A Principled Approach for Function Recognition in COTS Binaries
Rui Qiao, R. Sekar
2017Dependable Systems and Networks51 citations
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Protection, usability and improvements in reflected XSS filters
Riccardo Pelizzi, R. Sekar
2012ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security50 citations
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Automatic generation of buffer overflow attack signatures: an approach based on program behavior models
Zhen-Kai Liang, R. Sekar
2005Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference50 citations
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Lifting Assembly to Intermediate Representation: A Novel Approach Leveraging Compilers
N. Hasabnis, R. Sekar
2016International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems48 citations Open access
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Address-Space Randomization for Windows Systems
Lixin Li, J. Just, R. Sekar
2006Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference46 citations
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Inferring Higher Level Policies from Firewall Rules
A. Tongaonkar, Niranjan Inamdar, R. Sekar
2007LiSA41 citations
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Anti-Taint-Analysis : Practical Evasion Techniques Against Information Flow Based Malware Defense
L. Cavallaro, P. Saxena, R. Sekar
200736 citations
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Empowering mobile code using expressive security policies
V. Venkatakrishnan, R. Peri, R. Sekar
2002New Security Paradigms Workshop33 citations
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V-NetLab: An Approach for Realizing Logically Isolated Networks for Security Experiments
Wei-Qing Sun, Varun Katta, K. Krishna, R. Sekar
2008CSET32 citations
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Alcatraz: An Isolated Environment for Experimenting with Untrusted Software
Zhen-Kai Liang, Wei-Qing Sun, V. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar
2009TSEC30 citations
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V-NetLab : A Cost-Effective Platform to Support Course Projects in Computer Security
K. Krishna, Wei-Qing Sun, Pratik Rana, Tian-Ning Li +1 more
200528 citations
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Practical Dynamic Taint Analysis for Countering Input Validation Attacks on Web Applications
Wei Xu, Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar
200526 citations
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Protecting COTS Binaries from Disclosure-guided Code Reuse Attacks
Mingwei Zhang, M. Polychronakis, R. Sekar
2017Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference25 citations
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A Principled Approach for ROP Defense
Rui Qiao, Mingwei Zhang, R. Sekar
2015Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference25 citations Open access
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Extracting instruction semantics via symbolic execution of code generators
N. Hasabnis, R. Sekar
2016SIGSOFT FSE22 citations Open access
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Automatic Synthesis of Filters to Discard Buffer Overflow Attacks: A Step Towards Realizing Self-Healing Systems
Zhen-Kai Liang, R. Sekar, Daniel C. DuVarney
2005USENIX ATC, General Track22 citations
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Fast Packet Classification for Snort by Native Compilation of Rules
A. Tongaonkar, S. Vasudevan, R. Sekar
2008LiSA21 citations
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Improving Attack Detection in Host-Based IDS by Learning Properties of System Call Arguments
Abhishek Chaturvedi, Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar
200520 citations
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Hardening OpenStack Cloud Platforms against Compute Node Compromises
Wai-Kit Sze, Abhinav Srivastava, R. Sekar
2016ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security19 citations
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JaTE: Transparent and Efficient JavaScript Confinement
Tung Tran, Riccardo Pelizzi, R. Sekar
2015Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference18 citations Open access
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