The Security Group at Microsoft Research, UK, works on systems and network security and privacy-enhancing technologies. The research topics range from distributed access control to traffic analysis and to secure protocol engineering.
Research themes
- Privacy and anonymity technology (including traffic analysis, mix networks, location privacy, secure network location)
- Security policy specification (including SecPAL, electronic health records, authorization logics, privacy policies)
- Designing secure Internet protocols (including mobility, security protocols, denial of service, address ownership)
There are some significant projects in other areas, including the application of machine learning and Bayesian learning techniques to computer security, data provenance in digital libraries, and teaching of security and privacy. (See the archive for former projects.)
Recent highlights
3 papers by the group presented at PETS 2008.
George's paper with Prateek Mittal accepted to NDSS 2009.
Tuomas's lecture slides on network security updated (Dec 2008).
Other security groups at Microsoft Research
Security research spans all Microsoft Research labs and areas. See also the Programming Principles and Tools and Systems and Networking research groups, Security in Redmond, Cryptography and Anti-Piracy in Redmond, Cryptography, Security, and Applied Mathematics in India. For product security updates and guidance, see Security Central and, to report a vulnerability in a product, go to the Microsoft Security Response Center.
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