The Secure & Transparent Systems Laboratory

The STS Lab confronts issues of security and transparency in computer systems and networks. Within this broad area, we are especially interested in the challenges of detecting, investigating, and preventing intrusions in various computing environments such as operating systems, organizations, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. Increasingly, our work investigates and addresses the concerns of the users that interact with these systems.

Yeeun Jo’s research on the digital privacy of period and fertility tracking apps has been incorporated into the Mozilla Foundation’s privacy reviews of 6 new period tracker apps (Euki, Clue, Flo, Period Calendar, Spot On, Stardust). We’ve released a preprint of Yeeun’s full study if you’d like to hear more.Congrats Yeeun!

Posted 16 Jul 2026 by Adam

Adil Inam has successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Bridging High-Fidelity Provenance and Practical EDR at Enterprise Scale”. Congrats Dr. Inam!

Posted 30 Jun 2026 by Adam

Our paper, “Credible Threat Detection? Measuring Contribution Dynamics and Quality Control in a Crowdsourced Threat Detection Ecosystem,” has been accepted to 2026 USENIX Security Symposium. Congrats to our lead author, Apurva Virkud!

Posted 14 May 2026 by Adam

Akul has successfully defended and (after strategic delay) deposited his dissertation, titled “Realizing Provenance Aware Intrusion Detection Systems in an Enterprise Setting.” Congrats Dr. Goyal!

Posted 10 Apr 2026 by Adam