Publications
Conference Papers and Journal Articles
Samuel Jero, Juliana Furgala, Max A Heller, Benjamin Nahill, Samuel Mergendahl, Richard Skowyra. Securing the Satellite Software Stack, Workshop on Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec), March 2024. [PDF][PPTX]
Majid Ghaderi, Samuel Jero, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini. On Randomization in MTD Systems, Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD), Nov 2022. [PDF]
Majid Ghaderi, Samuel Jero, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Hamed Okhravi, and Reihaneh Safavi-Naini. The Tale of Discovering a Side Channel in Secure Message Transmission Systems, Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology (CFAIL), Aug 2022. [PDF]
Samuel Jero, Nathan Burow, Bryan Ward, Richard Skowyra, Roger Khazan, Howard Shrobe, and Hamed Okhravi. TAG: Tagged Architecture Guide, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), May 2022. [PDF]
Samuel Mergendahl, Samuel Jero, Bryan C. Ward, Juliana Furgala, Gabriel Parmer, Richard Skowyra. The Thundering Herd: Amplifying Kernel Interference to Attack Response Times, 28th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May 2022. [PDF][PPTX]
Benjamin E. Ujcich, Samuel Jero, Richard Skowyra, Adam Bates, William H. Sanders, and Hamed Okhravi. Causal Analysis for Software-Defined Networking Attacks, USENIX Security Symposium, August 2021. [PDF]
Samuel Jero, Juliana Furgala, Phani Kishore Gadepalli, Runyu Pan, Alexandra Clifford, Bite Ye, Roger Khazan, Bryan C. Ward, Gabriel Parmer, and Richard Skowyra. Practical Principle of Least Privilege for Secure Embedded Systems, 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May 2021. [PDF][PPTX][VIDEO]
Leila Rashidi, Daniel Kostecki, Alexander James, Anthony Perterson, Samuel Jero, Majid Ghaderi, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Reihaneh Savafi-Naini, and Hamed Okhravi. More than a Fair Share: Network Data Remanence Attacks against Secret Sharing-based Schemes, Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2021. [PDF][PPTX][VIDEO]
Anthony Peterson, Samuel Jero, Endadul Hoque, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and David Choffnes. aBBRate: Automating BBR Attack Exploration Using a Model-Based Approach, The 23rd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), October 2020. [PDF]
Benjamin E. Ujcich, Samuel Jero, Richard Skowyra, Steven R. Gomez, Adam Bates, William H. Sanders, and Hamed Okhravi. Automated Discovery of Cross-Plane Event-Based Vulnerabilities in Software-Defined Networking, Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2020. [PDF][SLIDES][VIDEO][CODE]
Shan Chen, Samuel Jero, Matthew Jagielski, Alexandra Boldyreva, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Secure Communication Channel Establishment: TLS 1.3 (over TCP Fast Open) vs. QUIC, The European Symposium on Research In Computer Security (ESORICS), September 2019. [PDF][TECH REPORT]
Steven R. Gomez, Samuel Jero, Richard Skowyra, Jason Martin, Patrick Sullivan, David Bigelow, Zackary Ellenbogen, Bryan C. Ward, Hamed Okhravi, and James W. Landry. Controller-Oblivious Dynamic Access Control in Software-Defined Networks, 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2019. [PDF][PPTX]
Bryan C. Ward, Richard Skowyra, Samuel Jero, Nathan Burow, Hamed Okhravi, Howard Shrobe, Roger Khazan. Security Considerations for Next-Generation Operating Systems, 1st International Workshop on Next-Generation Operating Systems for Cyber-Physical Systems (NGOSCPS), April 2019. [PDF]
Samuel Jero, Maria L. Pacheco, Dan Goldwasser, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Leveraging Textual Specifications for Grammar-based Fuzzing of Network Protocols. Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), January 2019. [PDF][PPTX]
Benjamin E. Ujcich, Samuel Jero, Anne Edmundson, Qi Wang, Richard Skowyra, James Landry, Adam Bates, William H. Sanders, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Hamed Okhravi. Cross-App Poisoning in Software-Defined Networking. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), pp 648-663, October 2018. [PDF][SLIDES]
Samuel Jero, Endadul Hoque, David Choffnes, Alan Mislove, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Automated Attack Discovery in TCP Congestion Control Using a Model-guided Approach. Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2018. [PDF][PPTX][VIDEO][CODE]
Cisco Network Security Distinguished Paper Award
Arash Molavi Kakhki, Samuel Jero, David Choffnes, Alan Mislove, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Taking a Long Look at QUIC: An Approach for Rigorous Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Transport Protocols. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), pp 290-303, November 2017. [PDF][PPTX][CODE]
Awarded the 2018 IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
Samuel Jero, Xiangyu Bu, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Hamed Okhravi, Richard Skowyra, and Sonia Fahmy. BEADS: A Framework for Attack Discovery in OpenFlow-based SDN Systems. 20th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID), LNCS 10453, pp 311-333, September 2017. [PDF][PPTX][CODE]
Samuel Jero, William Koch, Richard Skowyra, Hamed Okhravi, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and David Bigelow. Identifier Binding Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks. 26th USENIX Security Symposium, pp 415-432, August 2017. [PDF][PPTX][VIDEO]
Samuel Jero, Vijay K. Gurbani, Ray Miller, Bruce Cilli, Charles Payette, and Sameer Sharma. Dynamic control of real-time communications (RTC) using SDN: A case study of a 5G end-to-end service, 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), pp 895-900, April 2016. [PDF][PPTX]
Samuel Jero, Hyojeong Lee, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Leveraging State Information for Automated Attack Discovery in Transport Protocol Implementations. 45th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pp 1-12, June 2015. [PDF][PPTX][VIDEO][CODE]
Best Paper Award
Robert Lychev, Samuel Jero, Alexandra Boldyreva, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. How Secure and Quick is QUIC? Provable Security and Performance Analyses. 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), pp 214-231, May 2015. [PDF][TECH REPORT][PPTX][VIDEO]
Awarded the 2016 IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
Invited Papers and Magazine Articles
Richard Skowyra and Samuel Jero. Lessons Learned in Network and Memory-Based Moving-Target Defenses, 7th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD), 2020. [PDF][PPTX]
Hamed Okhravi, Nathan Burow, Richard Skowyra, Bryan Ward, Samuel Jero, Roger Kazan, and Howard Schrobe. One Giant Leap for Computer Security, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, 2020. [PDF]
Posters
Robert Esswein, Juliana Furgala, and Samuel Jero. Verification of Network Software using Symbolic Execution. IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland), 2024. [PPTX]
Samuel Jero, Endadul Hoque, David Choffnes, Alan Mislove, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru. Automated Attack Discovery in TCP Congestion Control Using a Model-guided Approach. Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), 2018. [PDF]
Samuel Jero, William Koch, Richard Skowyra, Hamed Okhravi, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and David Bigelow. Identifier Binding Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks. IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev), 2017. [PDF]
Standard Documents
Hans Kruse, Samuel Jero, and Shawn Ostermann. Datagram Convergence Layers for the Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol and Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP). RFC 7122 (Experimental), 2014. [HTML][TXT]
Theses
Samuel Jero. Analysis and Automated Discovery of Attacks in Transport Protocols. PhD Dissertation. Purdue University, 2018. [PDF]
Samuel Jero. Performance Analysis of the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP for Real-Time Streaming Media Applications. Masters Thesis. Ohio University, 2013. [PDF]