Vinod Ganapathy: Presentations

This webpage contains links to slides that I have presented to the research community at conferences and at other venues. Slides for conference papers presented by my co-authors may be available on the webpage associated with that paper. Please see my papers page for details.

• Rootkit-based Attacks and Defenses: Past, Present and Future
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides describing our research projects on rootkit detection.

• Analyzing Information Flow in JavaScript-based Browser Extensions
  [ Powerpoint ]
  Presentation slides describing the Sabre project on securing JavaScript-based Web browser extensions.

• Detecting Kernel-level Rootkits using Data Structure Invariants
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides describing the Gibraltar rootkit detection project.

• Enforcing Security Policies using Transactional Memory Introspection
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides describing the Transactional Memory Introspection project.

• Retrofitting Legacy Code for Authorization Policy Enforcement
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides from my Ph.D. thesis defense (Thursday, July 12th, 2007).

• Retrofitting Legacy Code for Security
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides describing my doctoral research on retrofitting legacy code for authorization policy enforcement.
  Presented at various universities and research labs in Spring 2007.

• Mining Security-Sensitive Operations in Legacy Code using Concept Analysis
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides from ICSE 2007.

• Microdrivers: A New Architecture for Device Drivers
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides from HotOS 2007.

• HeapMD: Identifying Heap-based Bugs using Anomaly Detection
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides from ASPLOS 2006.

• Retrofitting Legacy Code for Authorization Policy Enforcement
  [ Powerpoint | PDF | HTML ]
  Presentation slides from 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

• Toward Automated Authorization Policy Enforcement
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides from SELinux Symposium 2006.

• Automatic Placement of Authorization Hooks in the Linux Security Modules Framework
  [ Powerpoint | PDF ]
  Presentation slides from ACM CCS 2005.

• Automatic Discovery of API-Level Exploits
  [ Powerpoint | PDF | HTML ]
  Presentation slides from ICSE 2005.

• Buffer Overrun Detection using Linear Programming and Static Analysis
  [ Powerpoint | PDF | HTML ]
  Presentation slides from ACM CCS 2003.

Note that the Powerpoint presentations are available as Slideshows (PPS files) meaning that you can display them using a Powerpoint viewer, but cannot modify them. If you would like the PPT files instead, please email me.