.Sven Dietrich

Stevens Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
USA

Phone: +1 201 216 8078
Fax: +1 201 216 8249
email: spock AT cs DOT stevens DOT edu

Office hours: by appointment

Brief Bio:

I joined the faculty in the Computer Science Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor in the fall of 2007. I previously worked at CERT, located at Carnegie Mellon University, as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff from 2001 to 2007. I was also adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab (2003-2007) and briefly in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Duquesne University in Spring 2007. Prior to that, I was a Senior Security Architect at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1997-2001).

Research Interests:

My interests are in computer and network security, cryptography, anonymity, and privacy. In network security, my areas are in denial of service and malware (DDoS, botnets), and I have some interests in anti-phishing (I contributed to the technology in the anti-phishing startup Wombat Security Technologies). For cryptography, I look at cryptographic aspects of malware, and have interests in verification of cryptographic protocols.

Teaching:

Fall 2009: CS 576 Secure Systems, CS 577 Cybersecurity Lab.

Spring 2009: CS 665 Cybersecurity Forensics.

Fall 2008: CS 385 Data Structures and Algorithms II.

Spring 2008: CS 675 Secure Computer Systems.

Select publications:

- David Dittrich, Sven Dietrich. Discovery techniques for P2P botnets, Stevens CS Technical Report 2008-4, September 2008. Revised April 2009.

- David Dittrich, Sven Dietrich. P2P as botnet command and control: a deeper insight, in Proceedings of the 2008 3rd International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Malware), October 2008 ("Best Paper" award winner)

More info:

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Last updated April 21, 2009.