A household with smart devices may consist of a complex intermingling of device owners and non-owners, residents and visitors, adults and children, and many other categories of users. Although a common assumption is that each individual has their own un-shared account, it is common for multiple users to share the same account and password for… Read More SPLICE Publication: Optimistic Access Control for the Smart Home
With the increasing use and popularity of smart-home devices, there is an increasing need for a robust ecosystem to support the interoperability of devices from different manufacturers. The current ecosystem is fragmented, presenting difficulties for inter-device communications from different vendors. Matter, a unifying standard for smart home devices, released the first version of its specification… Read More New SPLICE Publication: Connected Smart Home over Matter Protocol
a provenance-based auditing framework that enables precise tracing of suspicious events in serverless applications… Read More SPLICE Publication: ALASTOR: Reconstructing the Provenance of Serverless Intrusions
Voice assistant systems (VAS) are software platforms such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant that complete various tasks using voice commands. VAS present opportunities for older adults to improve home safety, participate in remote monitoring, and optimize medication adherence. A recent study found that VAS ownership and use in older adults (>60 years) was similar to… Read More SPLICE Publication on Privacy concerns of older adults using voice-assistant systems
This past month, team members from all seven SPLICE institutions traveled to Hanover, New Hampshire, to meet in-person for the first time since the start of the project in October of 2020. Our annual meeting lasted two and a half days, with the first day including team professional development events, research-based meetings, and a poster… Read More Reflecting on Two Years of SPLICE Achievements
The Cybersecurity Assurance & Policy (CAP) Center at Morgan State University hosted two undergraduate engineering students and a high school STEM teacher to conduct IoT security research throughout summer ’21. The goal was for students to develop their team-building and leadership skills while working on an assigned research project and for the teacher to be… Read More SPLICE Paper on Engaging Students and Teachers in IoT Security Research
Mobile devices have become an indispensable component of modern life. With high storage capacity, these devices can store large amounts of sensitive personal data, making them a high-value target for data theft, and a valuable source of forensic data for law-enforcement agencies. Over the past several years, device and cloud service providers have deployed a… Read More New SPLICE Paper: ‘SoK: Cryptographic Confidentiality of Data on Mobile Devices’
A network of smart-home routers working collaboratively to defend smart-device traffic from analysis by ISP-like adversaries.… Read More New SPLICE thesis: ‘TorSH: Obfuscating consumer Internet-of-Things traffic with a collaborative smart-home router network’
A central controller that brings a home’s smart devices under secure management.… Read More New SPLICE thesis: ‘SPLICEcube Architecture: An Extensible Wi-Fi Monitoring Architecture for Smart-Home Networks’
In a recent press release, “IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna pledged for IBM to partner with HBCUs to establish Cybersecurity Leadership Centers, with the goal of building a more diverse U.S. cyber workforce.” Morgan State University (MSU) is one of the first six of more than 20 Cybersecurity Leadership Centers. “Participant universities will have access to a… Read More IBM partners with MSU to Establish Cybersecurity Leadership Center
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