2012

  1. AMI Threats, Intrusion Detection Requirements and Deployment Recommendations (pdf)
    David Grochocki, Jun Ho Huh, Robin Berthier, Rakesh Bobba, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Jorjeta G. Jetcheva, William H. Sanders
    IEEE SmartGridComm 2012. November 2012.

  2. Evaluating Electricity Theft Detectors in Smart Grid Networks (pdf)
    Daisuke Mashima, Alvaro A. Cárdenas
    Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) Symposium. September 12-14, 2012. Acceptance Rate 21%.

  3. Cyber-Physical Security for Smart Grid Systems (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Ricardo Moreno
    NIST Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop. April 23-24, 2012

  4. Privacy-Aware Sampling for Residential Demand Response Programs (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Galina Schwartz
    Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS) at CPSWeek. April 17-18, 2012

  5. Establishing Short and Long-term Plans for Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructures (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas
    The Critical Infrastructure Protection Report. George Mason School of Law. April, 2012

  6. Privacy and Integrity for Data Aggregation in Smart Grid Networks (link)
    Gelareh Taban, Alvaro A. Cárdenas
    IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, March 15, 2012

  7. Comparison of Data Forwarding Mechanisms for AMI Networks. (pdf)
    Sandra Céspedes, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Tadashige Iwao
    2012 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). January 17-19, 2012.

  8. Security and Privacy in the Smart Grid. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
    In Sajal K. Das, Krishna Kant, and Nan Zhang Eds. Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Infrastructures: Foundations and Challenges. Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.

2011

  1. Enhancing Cyber-physical Security through Data Patterns. (pdf)
    Richard Chow, Ersin Uzun, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Zhexuan Song, Sung Lee.
    Workshop on Foundations of Dependable and Secure Cyber-Physical Systems. Associated with CPSWeek 2011. April 11, 2011.

  2. Attacks Against Process Control Systems: Risk Assessment, Detection, and Response (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Zong-Syun Lin, Yu-Lun Huang, Chi-Yen Huang, and Shankar Sastry
    ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2011)
    March 22-24,2011. Acceptance Rate 16%.

2010

  1. A Semantic Middleware for the Internet of Things. (pdf)
    Zhexuan Song, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Ryusuke Masuoka
    Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IOT2010)
    November 29-December 1, Tokyo, Japan. Acceptance Rate 26%.

  2. Dynamic Data Forwarding in Wireless Mesh Networks. (pdf)
    Tadashige Iwao, Kenji Yamada, Masakazu Yura, Yuuta Nakaya, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Sung Lee, Ryusuke Masuoka
    First IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm).
    Gaithersburg, MD, (NIST) October 2010.

  3. Nudge: Intermediaries Role in Interdependent Network Security (pdf)
    Jens Grossklags, Svetlana Radosavac, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, and John Chuang.
    In 3rd International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2010), Berlin, Germany. June 21-23 2010.

2009

  1. An Economic Map of Cybercrime (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Svetlana Radosavac, Jens Grossklags, John Chuang, and Chris Hoofnagle.
    In The 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy. September, 2009.

  2. Understanding the Physical and Economic Consequences of Attacks Against Control Systems. (pdf) (link)
    Yu-Lun Huang, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Zong-Syun Lin, Hsin-Yi Tsai, Shankar Sastry
    International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection. Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 69-134. October 2009.

  3. Rethinking Security Properties, Threat Models and the Design Space in Sensor Networks: A Case Study in SCADA Systems. (pdf) (link)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Tanya Roosta, Shankar Sastry
    Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 7, Issue 8, November 2009, Pages 1434--1447.

  4. Evaluation of Detection Algorithms for MAC Layer Misbehavior: Theory and Experiments. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Svetlana Radosavac, John S.Baras.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).
    Volume 17, Issue 2. April 2009. Pages 605-617.

  5. Safe and Secure Networked Control Systems Under Denial-of-Service Attacks.(pdf)
    Saurabh Amin, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Shankar Sastry.
    In the 12th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 09).
    San Francisco, USA. April 2009.

2008

  1. Cyber Security: Basic Defenses and Attack Trends Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Tanya Roosta, Gelareh Taban, Shankar Sastry
    In Giorgio Franceschetti and Marina Grossi Eds. Homeland Security Technology Challenges: From Sensing and Encrypting to Mining and Modeling. Artech House Publishers. 685 Canon Street; Norwood MA 02062. July 31, 2008. (Book Chapter.)

  2. Research Challenges for the Security of Control Systems. (pdf) (html)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Shankar Sastry.
    3rd USENIX workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '08). Associated with the 17th USENIX Security Symposium.
    San Jose, CA, USA. July 2008.

  3. Secure Control: Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Saurabh Amin, Shankar Sastry.
    First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2008).
    Beijing, China. June 2008.

  4. Principled Reasoning and Practical Applications of Alert Fusion in Intrusion Detection Systems. (pdf)
    Guofei Gu, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Wenke Lee.
    ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS'08).
    Tokyo, Japan, March 2008. Acceptance rate 17.6%. 32 Regular papers out of 182 submissions.

2007

  1. Optimal ROC Curve for a Combination of Classifiers (pdf)
    Marco Barreno, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, J.D. Tygar.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 20.
    MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Pages 57-64, 2007. Acceptance Rate 22%.

  2. Optimal Watermarking Schemes in Uncertain Gaussian Channels (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, George Moustakides, John S.Baras.
    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    San Antonio, Texas, September 2007.

  3. Performance Comparison of Detection Schemes for MAC Layer Misbehavior. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Svetlana Radosavac, John S.Baras.
    26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
    Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007. Acceptance Rate 18%.

  4. Towards Optimal Design of Data Hiding Algorithms Against Nonparametric Adversary Models. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, George Moustakides, John S.Baras.
    41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
    Baltimore, Maryland, March 2007.

  5. Detecting MAC Layer Misbehavior: Robust Strategies Against Individual and Colluding Attackers. (pdf)
    Svetlana Radosavac, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, John S.Baras, George Moustakides.
    Journal of Computer Security.
    Volume 15, Number 1/2007. Pages 103-128.

2006

  1. A Framework for the Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, John S. Baras, Karl S. Seamon.
    2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)
    Oakland/Berkeley, California, May 21-24 2006. Acceptance rate 9%.23 Regular papers out of 251 submissions.

  2. A Unified Framework of Information Assurance for the Design and Analysis of Security Algorithms. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Gelareh Taban, John S. Baras.
    Accepted for oral presentation at the 25th Army Science Conference.
    Orlando, Florida, November 27-30, 2006. Accepted for Oral Presentation.

  3. Towards Secure and Interoperable DRM Architectures. (pdf)
    Gelareh Taban, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Virgil Gligor.
    Sixth ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM 2006).
    Arlington, Virginia, October 30, 2006. Acceptance Rate 33%.

  4. Evaluation of Classifiers and Learning Rules: Considerations for Security Applications. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, John S. Baras.
    AAAI 06 Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning.
    Boston, Massachusetts, July 17, 2006.

  5. B-ROC Curves for the Assessment of Classifiers over Imbalanced Data Sets. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, John S. Baras.
    Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI 06), Nectar track.
    Boston, Massachusetts, July 16-20, 2006.

2004

  1. Detection and Prevention of MAC layer misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Svetlana Radosavac, John S. Baras.
    Second ACM security of ad hoc and sensor networks workshop (SASN).
    Washington, DC, October 25, 2004. Acceptance Rate 37%.

  2. Distributed Change Detection and Filtering for Worms, DDoS and other Network Attacks. (pdf)
    Alvaro A. Cárdenas, John S. Baras, Vahid. Ramezani.
    2004 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC).
    Boston, Massachusetts, June 30-July 2, 2004. Best presentation award.

2002

  1. On-line detection of distributed attacks from space-time network flow patterns. (pdf)
    John S. Baras, Alvaro. A. Cárdenas, Vahid. Ramezani.
    23rd Army Science Conference.
    Orlando, Florida, December 2002. Best Paper Award in Information Technology.

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