Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
4-2010
Document Type
Conference Paper
Recommended Citation
Jason Reed, Adam Aviv, Daniel Wagner, Andreas Haeberlen, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Jonathan M. Smith, "Differential Privacy for Collaborative Security", . April 2010.
Abstract
Fighting global security threats with only a local view is inherently difficult. Internet network operators need to fight global phenomena such as botnets, but they are hampered by the fact that operators can observe only the traffic in their local domains. We propose a collaborative approach to this problem, in which operators share aggregate information about the traffic in their respective domains through an automated query mechanism. We argue that existing work on differential privacy and type systems can be leveraged to build a programmable query mechanism that can express a wide range of queries while limiting what can be learned about individual customers. We report on our progress towards building such a mechanism, and we discuss opportunities and challenges of the collaborative security approach.
Date Posted: 19 July 2012
Comments
Reed, J., Aviv, A., Wagner, D., Haeberlen, A., Pierce, B., & Smith, J., Differential Privacy for Collaborative Security, 2010 European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec'10), April 2010, doi: 10.1145/1752046.1752047