Colloquia

Securing the Open Softphone Kickoff Colloquium

 

 

Wednesday September 1st, 2010, 3:30-6:00pm

Photonics 210, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Or join us by video-conference at http://met-meet.bu.edu
click Join Meeting then enter softphone for the room name

Agenda

Project overview: Slides Introducing the group: Mark Crovella Steve Homer Sharon Goldberg Mark Karpovsky Loenid Reyzin David Starobinski Ari Trachtenberg Nikos Triandopoulos Tanya Zlateva Slides Research questions: Mark Crovella David Starobinski Mark Karpovsky Ari Trachtenberg Greg Troxel Slides Research questions: Leonid Reyzin Slides Teleconference with Deutsche Telekom: Agarwal Sachin Presenting from Berlin, Germany via video-conferencing Educational mission and outreach: Tanya Zlateva Slides

Presentation

A copy of the kickoff colloquium presentation is available for download here and the educational mission and outreach presentation here.

Research Statement

Mobile wireless devices are now turning into universal handsets: powerful sensorrich
software-controlled computing and communication devices. These “softphones”
are increasingly entrusted with maintaining a users’ electronic identity, calendars,
financial data, and social networking in one device.
The increasing openness of softphones comes with equally large security issues
and opportunities, some of which we are only beginning to understand. We
proposed a multi-pronged research plan that methodically considers the security
implications of the open softphone and focuses on identifying, understanding, and
mitigating new security risks.
The project ultimately aims to understand how security problems associated with
softphones and their networks are different from those of traditional computers and
networks, and how to harness the unique capabilities of softphones for improved
security.
This research project is supported by the NSF.