Sean W. Smith

Scalable Identity and Key Management for Publish-Subscribe Protocols in the Internet-of-Things

2019

Publish-Subscribe protocols such as the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol are considered scalable, lightweight, and one-size-fits-all solutions for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) networking. MQTT has been widely adopted in the Industrial IoT to automate distributed …

Eyes on URLs: Relating Visual Behavior to Safety Decisions

2020 · ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications

Individual and organizational computer security rests on how people interpret and use the security information they are presented. One challenge is determining whether a given URL is safe or not. This paper explores the visual …

Armor Within: Defending Against Vulnerabilities in Third-Party Libraries

2020

Vulnerabilities in third-party software modules have resulted in severe security flaws, including remote code execution and denial of service. However, current approaches to securing such libraries suffer from one of two problems. First, they do …