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Michel Cukier
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Associate Professor 301/314-2804 TEL |
Research Interests
Dependability and security issues, empirical quantification of cyber security, hybrid honeypot architecture and dynamic analysis of malware
Background Information
Michel Cukier is an Associate Professor of Reliability Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. Michel received a degree in physics engineering from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, in 1991, and a doctorate in computer science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France, in 1996. From 1996 to 2001, he was a researcher at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He joined the University of Maryland in 2001 as Assistant Professor.
His research covers dependability and security issues. His latest research focuses on the empirical quantification of computer security. He has published over 60 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings in those areas.
Selected publications
Refereed Journals
An Evaluation of Connection Characteristics for Separating Network Attacks
R. Berthier, and M. Cukier
International Journal of Security and Networks, vol. 4, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 110-124.
Prioritizing Vulnerability Remediation by Determining Attacker-Targeted Vulnerabilities
M. Cukier, and S. Panjwani
IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 7, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 2009, pp. 42-48.
Archetypal Behavior in Computer Security
S. N. Rosenfeld, I. Rus, and M. Cukier
Journal of Systems and Software, special issue on Methodology of Security Engineering for Industrial Security Management Systems), vol. 80, no. 10, October 2007, pp. 1594-1606.
Experiences with Building an Intrusion-tolerant Group Communication System
H. V. Ramasamy, P. Pandey, M. Cukier, and W. H. Sanders
Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 38, no.6, May 2008, pp. 639-666.
An Architecture for Adaptive Intrusion-Tolerant Applications
P. Pal, P. Rubel, M. Atighetchi, F. Webber, W. H. Sanders, M. Seri, H. Ramasamy, J. Lyons, T. Courtney, A. Agbaria, M. Cukier, J. Gossett, and I. Keidar
Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 36, no. 11-12, September 2006, pp. 1331-1354.
A Global-State-Triggered Fault Injector for Distributed System Evaluation
R. Chandra, R. M. Lefever, K. Joshi, M. Cukier, and W. H. Sanders
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 15, no. 7, July 2004, pp. 593-605.
Highly Competitive Conferences
Analyzing the Process of Installing Rogue Software
R. Berthier, J. Arjona, and M. Cukier
in Proc. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2009), June-July 2009.
Analysis of Computer Security Incident Data Using Time Series Models
E. Condon, Angela He, and M. Cukier
in Proc. 19th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2008), Seattle/Redmond, WA, November 11-14, 2008, pp. 77-86.
Applying Software Reliability Models on Security Incidents
E. Condon, M. Cukier, and T. He
in Proc. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2007), Trollhtan, Sweden, November 5-9, 2007, pp. 159-168.
A Comparison between Internal and External Malicious Traffic
M. Cukier and S. Panjwani
in Proc. 18th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2007), Trollhtan, Sweden, November 5-9, 2007, pp. 109 - 114.
Profiling Attacker Behavior Following SSH Compromises
D. Ramsbrock, R. Berthier, and M. Cukier
in Proc. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2007), June-July 2007, pp. 119-124.
Scientific and Professional Memberships
Program Chair of the Fast Abstracts of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2003), June 2003.
Program Chair of the International Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Dependability and Security (WEEDS) (In Conjunction with the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN-2006), June 28 2006.
Workshops Chair of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2009), June 2009.
Program Chair of the Fast Abstracts of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2009), November 2009.
Conference program committee of the Performance and Dependability Symposium of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2007), June-July 2007.
Conference program committee of the Fault-Tolerance and Dependability track of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), July 2007.
Conference program committee of the IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC07), December 2007.
Conference program committee of the Workshop on Collaboration and Security (COLSEC'07) (held in conjunction with the 2007 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2007)), May 2007.
Conference program committee of the 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007), July 2007.
Conference program committee of the 4th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2007), September 2007.
Conference program committee of the Fast Abstracts of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2007), June-July 2007.
Conference program committee of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2007), November 2007.
Conference program committee of the Student Forum of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2007), June-July 2007.
Conference program committee of the International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2007), July 2007.
Conference program committee of the Fast Abstracts of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2007), November 2007.
Conference program committee of the Performance and Dependability Symposium of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2008), June-July 2008.
Conference program committee of the 5th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2008), September 2008.
Conference program committee of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2008), November 2008.
Student program committee of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2008), November 2008.
Conference program committee of the 11th IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE'08), December 2008.
Conference program committee of the 11th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2008), December 2008.
Conference program committee of the Performance and Dependability Symposium of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2009), June-July 2009.
Workshop program committee of Workshop on Sharing Field Data and Experiment Measurements on Resilience of Distributed Computing Systems (held in conjunction with the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2008)), October 2008.
Conference program committee of the Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC 2009), September 2009.
Conference program committee of the 5th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2009), July 2009.
Conference program committee of the International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2009), October 2009.
Conference program committee of the Dependable Computing and Communication Symposium of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2010), June-July 2010.
Links
Mechanical
Engineering Department
Center for Reliability Engineering
Quantifying Computer Security (ISR Research Brief)
Ferret for Windows
LOKI
Fault Injector
ITUA
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