Research
There’s a couple publications that I’ve been part of, email me if you would like to know more. I’m interested in many different security topics, some of which are listed below. I have a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Conference and workshop publications
Shuo Tang, Chris Grier, Onur Aciicmez, and Samuel T. King, “Alhambra: A system for creating, enforcing and testing browser security policies,” In Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), 2010. PDF.
Chris Grier, Kurt A. Thomas, David M. Nicol, “Barriers to Security and Privacy Research in the Web Era,” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research, January 2010. PDF.
Helen J. Wang, Chris Grier, Alexander Moshchuk, Samuel T. King, Piali Choudhury, and Herman Venter, “The Multi-principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser,” In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2009. PDF
Chris Grier, Samuel T. King, Dan S. Wallach, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plugins,” Web 2.0 Security and Privacy, May 2009. PDF
Helen J. Wang, Chris Grier, Alexander Moshchuk, Samuel T. King, Piali Choudhury, and Herman Venter, “The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser,” MSR technical report MSR-TR-2009-16, Redmond, WA, Feb 19, 2009. PDF
Chris Grier, Shuo Tang, and Samuel T. King, “Secure web browsing with the OP web browser”, In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008. PDF
Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou, “Designing and implementing malicious hardware”, to appear in the First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET ‘08), April 2008. PDF
C. M. Davis, J. E. Tate, H. Okhravi, C. Grier, T. J. Overbye, and D. Nicol, “SCADA Cyber Security Testbed Development” in Proceedings of North American Power Symposium (NAPS), September 2006. PDF
Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, Chris Grier, “RINSE: The Real- Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises”, in Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), June 2005. PDF
Journal papers
Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, and Chris Grier. “RINSE: The Real-Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises (Extended Version).” Simulation Vol. 82(1), pp. 43-59, Jan. 2006. (PADS conference PDF)
Other publications
Chris Grier, Shuo Tang, and Samuel T. King. “Building a More Secure Web Browser,” ;login: The USENIX Magazine, Vol. 33 Number 4, August 2008. PDF
General interests
- Attacks and hacking
- Designing secure systems
- Networks, protocols and algorithms for networks
- Very large scale Internet attacks (worms, botnets, etc…)
- Rootkits, malware, bot design and implementations
- Breaking just about anything, and analyzing prevention mechanisms
