Colloquia

Securing the Open Softphone Kickoff Colloquium

Wednesday September 1st, 2010, 3:30-6:00pm
Photonics 210, 8 St. Mary’s Street

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 sensor-rich 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.