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The Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Laboratory is a research laboratory in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, and member lab of the Network and Security Research Center (NSRC). The SIIS Laboratory develops advanced security technologies for critical components of the modern computing infrastructure. Our researchers consider security problems at all levels of systems design, from theoretical cryptography to physical hardware. Our research has been published in top academic venues in security, networking, operating systems, software engineering, and cryptography, as well as featured in many outlets in popular press.

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The Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Lab is a computer security research group in the department of computer science at Penn State University. The goal of the lab is to provide a collaborative forum for security research at PSU. The SIIS lab’s primary research areas are telecommunications security, and the security of operating systems and virtual machines. The lab is also actively performing research in the areas of storage device security, security policy, and web security. Since its creation in ___ by Patrick McDaniel, the SIIS lab has had X masters students and Y doctoral candidates. The lab was joined by Trent Jaeger in ___ and Adam Smith in ___.

Faculty

 * Patrick McDaniel (co-Director)
 * Trent Jaeger (co-Director)
 * Adam Smith

Alumni

 * Patrick Traynor, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
 * Fr. Boniface Hicks, Assistant Professor, St. Vincent College

SMS Analysis
In fall 2005, researchers in the SIIS lab announced their discovery of vulnerabilities in SMS-capable cellular networks. Then graduate students William Enck and Patrick Traynor along with professors Patrick McDaniel and Thomas La Porta identified methods of severely degrading, if not stopping altogether, the connection of new voice calls in large metropolitan areas (e.g., Manhattan) by sending large numbers of SMS messages to phone numbers with corresponding area codes. The research received international coverage including The New York Times. smsanalysis.org provides a more detailed look at the findings.

EVEREST
In the Fall of 2007, the SIIS lab participated in the Evaluation and Validation of Electronic Voting Equipment, Standards and Testing (EVEREST), a project sponsored by Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. The goal of project EVEREST was to determine the ability of the electronic voting equipment used in the state of Ohio to accurately and dependably support elections. The SIIS lab investigated the Premier, formerly Diebold and Hart InterCivic voting systems. A final report, which including findings from the ES&S system studied by the University of Pennsylvania and UC Santa Barbera, was released in December of 2007. The findings both confirmed the existence of previously discovered vulnerabilities (CA TTBR, FL SAIT , CT UConn VoTeR Center  , and  prior academic literature by Kohno et al., Feldman et al., Kiayias et al., and Proebstel et al.) and new security issues in all three systems studied.