The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change the way we acquire and handle data — as Internet-connected devices (wearable or implantable medical sensors, environmental sensors, devices) “stream” data back to the cloud for processing, analysis, and real-time decision-making. Consider the example of heart arrhythmia detection below. A key component Read more…
Operators of distributed systems often find themselves needing to answer a diagnostic or forensic question. Some part of the system is found to be in an unexpected state; for example, a suspicious routing table entry is discovered, or a proxy cache is found to contain an unusually large number of Read more…
The goal of this project is to create fundamentally new defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that can provide far greater resilience to these attacks compared to existing solutions. Today’s responses to DDoS attacks largely rely on old-school network-based filtering or scrubbing, which are slow and manual, and cannot handle Read more…