Trent Jaeger

Trent Jaeger is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State and the Co-Director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Lab.  He joined Penn State after working for IBM Research Center for nine years in operating systems and system security research groups. Trent's research interests include operating systems security, access control, and source code and policy analysis tools.  He has published over 80 refereed research papers and has seven patents on these subjects.  Trent has made a variety of contributions to open source systems security, particularly to the Linux Security Modules framework, the SELinux module and policy development, integrity measurement in Linux, and the Xen security architecture.

Trent is the author of the book "Operating Systems Security," which examines the principles and designs of secure operating systems.  He is active in the security research community, having been a member of the program committees of all the major security conferences, and the program chair of the ACM CCS Government and Industry Track, ACM SACMAT, as well as chairing several workshops. He is an associate editor with ACM TOIT and has been a guest editor of ACM TISSEC. Trent has an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in computer science and engineering in 1993 and 1997, respectively.

Research Interests:

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

Selected Publications:

1. Hicks, B., S. Rueda, L. St. Clair, T. Jaeger, P. McDaniel.  2009.  A Logical Specification and Analysis for SELinux MLS Policy.  To appear in ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (ACM TISSEC).
2. Jaeger, T.  2008.  Operating Systems Security.  Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust.  R. Sandhu, Ed.  Morgan & Claypool Publishers.  218 pages.
3. King, D., T. Jaeger, S. Jha, S. Seshia.  November 2008.  Effective Blame for Information Flow Violations.  Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2008).  pp. 458-467.  Minneapolis, MN.
4. Rueda, S., D. King, T. Jaeger.  August 2008.  Verifying Compliance of Trusted Programs.  Proceedings of the Seventeenth USENIX Security Symposium.  pp. 321-334.  San Jose, CA.
5. St. Clair, L., J. Schiffman, T. Jaeger, P. McDaniel.  December 2007.  Establishing and Sustaining Systems Integrity via Root of Trust Installation.  Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '07).  pp. 19-29.  Miami, FL.