Welcome to the website for the FRIENDS research group. We do research on a variety of topics, including virtualization technologies, cloud computing, malware defense, and operating system security.
Here you can find out about us and the projects we are currently working on. The links on the left should be able to get you started. If you would like to contact us, please email Dongyan Xu.
News:
Ryan Riley has been awarded the 2009 CERIAS Diamond Award for outstanding academic achievement in information security. The award was announced on March 25 during the 2009 CERIAS Security Symposium.
Our paper on cloud computing reliability entitled "VNsnap: Taking Snapshots of Virtual Networked Environments with Minimal Downtime" has been accepted to IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-DCCS 2009). The authors are Ardalan Kangarlou, Patrick Eugster, and Dongyan Xu.
Our paper entitled "Multi-Aspect Profiling of Kernel Rootkit Behavior" has been accepted to EuroSys 2009 -- the European Conference on Computer Systems. The authors are Ryan Riley, Xuxian Jiang (NCSU), and Dongyan Xu.
We're here at RAID 2008 presenting NICKLE, our rootkit prevention work. I mentioned in the talk that the code would be available later in the day. Well, it is later in the day. You can get the source code off the project page, here.
Update (on Day 2 of RAID'08): The paper received the Best Paper Award!
Update (on Day 2 of RAID'08): The paper received the Best Paper Award!
A recent article in Virtual Strategy Magazine, "Beyond Hypervisors", covers a number of FRIENDS Lab projects on virtualization, ranging from virtual distributed computing to virtualization-based malware defense. Read the article on line here (but look no further for the correct URL of our lab :-).