This seminar is cancelled due to inclement weather prediction for tomorrow.

> SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
> CENTER FOR SECURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
> GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
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> Date :  Thursday, March 5, 2015
> Time :  2:30 - 3:30
> Location :  Research Hall, Room 401
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> Distributed Data Usage Control
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> Professor Alexander Pretschner
> Technische Universitaet Muenchen
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> Abstract: Distributed data usage control is concerned with what happens to
> data once it is given away ("delete after 30 days;" "notify me if data is
> forwarded;" "copy at most twice"). In the past, we have considered the
> problem in terms of policies, enforcement and guarantees from two
> perspectives:
> (a) In order to protect data, it is necessary to  distinguish between content (a
> song by Elvis called "Love me Tender") and representations of that content
> (song.mp3; song.wav, etc.). This requires efficient data flow-tracking
> concepts and capabilities in data usage control frameworks.
> (b) The representations exist at different  layers of abstraction: a picture
> downloaded from the internet exists as pixmap (window  manager), as
> element in the browser-created DOM tree (application),  and as cache file
> (operating system). This requires the data flow  tracking capabilities to cross
> the single layers to which they are deployed.
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> In distributed systems, it has turned out that another  system can be seen as
> another set of abstraction layers, thus generalizing the basic model. Demo
> videos of our work are available at
> http://www22.in.tum.de/forschung/distributed-usage-control/.
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> In this talk, we present the general model and its implementations. We also
> show how to use our approach to not only protect entire data items but
> possibly also fractions of data items. This allows us to specify and enforce
> policies such as "not  more than 20% of the data may leave the system",
> evidently leading to interesting questions concerning the interpretation of
> "20%", and if  the structure of data items cannot be exploited. We present a
> respective model, an implementation, and experimental results. Time
> permitting, we will finally discuss how to use precomputed static analysis
> results in a dynamic multi-layer context.
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> Bio: Alexander Pretschner is a full professor of computer science at
> Technische Universitaet Muenchen. Research interests include software
> engineering, specifically testing; and information security, specifically
> distributed data usage control. Prior appointments include a full
> professorship at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; an adjunct associate
> professorship at TU Kaiserslautern; a group management position at the
> Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in
> Kaiserslautern; guest professorships at the universities of Rennes, Trento,
> and Innsbruck; and a senior researcher's position at ETH Zurich. PhD degree
> from Technische Universitaet Muenchen; Master's degrees from Kansas
> University, on a Fulbright scholarship, and from RWTH Aachen.  Recent
> awards include two IBM faculty awards, a Google focused research award,
> and a Fraunhofer Attract award. Member of the editorial board of the IEEE
> Transactions on Secure and Dependable Computing, the Journal of Software
> Testing, Verification, and Reliability, and the Journal of Software Systems
> Modeling; membership in numerous program committees; organization of
> ca. 25 symposia; frequent invited speaker; frequent reviewer for national
> and international funding agencies as well as hiring committees.
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> **Point of contact:  Prof Sushil Jajodia [log in to unmask]
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