nick l. petroni, jr.

Info

Name:	Nick L. Petroni, Jr.
Contact:	npetroni (at) cs.umd.edu
Education:	Ph.D., Computer Science, May 2008
	University of Maryland, College Park

	B.S., Computer Science, May 2001
	University of Notre Dame

Overview

I am an alumnus of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. While a student at UMD, I was a research assistant under Mike Hicks and Bill Arbaugh.

I am currently a part-time lecturer in the Master's Program in Telecommunications.

Teaching

Fall 2008, ENTS 689i -- Special Topics: Network Immunity

Publications

N. Petroni, "Property-based Integrity Monitoring of Operating System Kernels" , Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland, May 2008.
N. Petroni and M. Hicks, "Automated Detection of Persistent Kernel Control-Flow Attacks", Proc. of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October, 2007.
N. Petroni, A. Walters, T. Fraser, and W. Arbaugh, "FATKit: A Framework for the Extraction and Analysis of Digital Forensic Data from Volatile System Memory," Digital Investigation, The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response. 3(4):197-210, December, 2006.
N. Petroni, T. Fraser, A. Walters, and W. Arbaugh, "An Architecture for Specification-Based Detection of Semantic Integrity Violations in Kernel Dynamic Data," Proc. of the 15th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2006.
J. Vollbrecht, P. Eronen, N. Petroni, and Y. Ohba, "RFC 4137: State Machines for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Peer and Authenticator", IETF Informational RFC, August 2005.
N. Petroni, T. Fraser, J. Molina, and W. Arbaugh, "Copilot - a Coprocessor-based Kernel Runtime Integrity Monitor," Proc. of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August, 2004.
J. Branch, N. Petroni, L. Van Doorn, and D. Safford, "Autonomic 802.11 Wireless LAN Security Auditing: A Distributed Approach," IEEE Security and Privacy, May/June, 2004.
A. Mishra, M. Shin, N. Petroni, T. Clancy, and W. Arbaugh, "Proactive Key Distribution Using Neighbor Graphs," IEEE Wireless Communications, February, 2004.
A. Mishra, N. Petroni, W. Arbaugh, and T. Fraser, ``Security Issues in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks: A Survey,'' Wiley InterScience Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, 2004.
N. Petroni and W. Arbaugh, "The Dangers of Mitigating Security Design Flaws: A Wireless Case Study," IEEE Security and Privacy, January/February, 2003.