Trent Jaeger

Trent Jaeger received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Trent joined the Computer Science and Engineering department at Penn State in 2005. He is co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Lab at Penn State. Prior to joining Penn State, he was a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center for nine years.
His research/teaching interests are in the areas of computer security, operating systems, security policies, and source code analysis for security. Trent has been active in the Linux community for several years, particularly in contributing code and tools for the Linux Security Modules (LSM) framework (in Linux 2.6) and for integrating the SELinux/LSM with IPsec (called Labeled IPsec, available in Linux 2.6.18 and above). He is also active in the security research community at large, having served on the program committees of all the major security conferences, recently the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. He is also the program chair for the 2007 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security. He has more than sixty refereed publications and is the holder of several U.S. patents.

Research Interests:

Computer Security, Operating Systems, Security Policies, Source Code Analysis

Selected Publications:

1. Hicks, B., S. Rueda, T. Jaeger, P. McDaniel. June 2007. From Trusted to Secure: Building and Executing Applications that Enforce System Security. Proceedings of the 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '07). 14 pages. Santa Clara, CA.
   
2. Ganapathy, V., D. King, T. Jaeger, S. Jha. May 2007. Mining Security-Sensitive Operations in Legacy Code using Concept Analysis. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007). pp. 458-467. Minneapolis, MN.
   
3. McCune, J., S. Berger, R. Caceres, T. Jaeger, R. Sailer. December 2006. Shamon: A System for Distributed Mandatory Access Control. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. pp. 23-32. Miami Beach, FL.
   
4. Shankar, U., T. Jaeger, R. Sailer. February 2006. Towards Automated Information-Flow Integrity Verification for Security Critical Applications. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. pp. 267-280. San Diego, CA.
   
5. Sailer, R., E. Valdez, S. Berger, R. Perez, T. Jaeger, L. van Doorn. December 2005. Building a MAC-based Security Architecture for the Xen Opensource Hypervisor. Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2005). pp. 276-285. Tempe, AZ.