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Search Publications by: Jeff Voas (Fed)

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Exposing Software Security and Availability Risks For Commercial Mobile Devices

June 21, 2013
Author(s)
Ryan Johnson, Zhaohui Wang, Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas
In this manuscript, we present our efforts towards a framework for exposing the functionality of a mobile application through a combination of static and dynamic program analysis that attempts to explore all available execution paths including libraries

Mobile Application Device Power Usage Measurements

July 31, 2012
Author(s)
Rahul Murmuria, Jeffrey Medsger, Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas
Reducing power consumption has become a crucial design tenet for both mobile and other small computing devices that are not constantly connected to a power source. However, unlike devices that have a limited and predefined set of functionality, recent

The Internet of Things: A Reality Check

June 11, 2012
Author(s)
George Hurlburt, Jeff Voas, Keith Miller
The short persepctive explains the concept behind Internet of Things (IoT). The publication is a perspectives piece for an IEEE magazine and not intended to be technical. This is intended to be published in a specific column in the magazine.

Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations

May 29, 2012
Author(s)
Mark L. Badger, Timothy Grance, Robert Patt-Corner, Jeffrey M. Voas
This document reprises the NIST-established definition of cloud computing, describes cloud computing benefits and open issues, presents an overview of major classes of cloud technology, and provides guidelines and recommendations on how organizations

A Matter of Policy

March 26, 2012
Author(s)
David F. Ferraiolo, Jeffrey M. Voas, George Hurlburt
This paper discusses system security policies. System policies are the set of rules that when implemented afford a strategy for the protection of information. The policy objectives are diverse and span the social-economic spectrum. System policies govern

Building Security into Off-the-Shelf Smartphones

February 1, 2012
Author(s)
Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas, Tom T. Karygiannis, Stephen Quirolgico
Recent advancements in hardware have increased the computing power, memory, storage, and wireless connectivity of handheld mobile devices. Smart-phone devices are used for everyday activities that range from Maps and Geo-location tagging to banking. Indeed

Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
George Hurlburt, Jeff Voas, Keith Miller
Giving individuals this kind of information processing power, along with unprecedented connectivity, might be the single most impressive technical achievement of the 21st century. Nobody knows what the full impact of this transformation will be, but it's

Vetting Mobile Apps

July 22, 2011
Author(s)
Stephen Quirolgico, Jeffrey M. Voas, David R. Kuhn
Billions of copies of apps for mobile devices have been purchased in recent years. With this growth, however, comes an increase in the spread of potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities. Because of an app's low cost and high proliferation, the threat

Thoughts on Higher Education and Scientific Research

March 22, 2011
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Voas, George Hurlburt, Keith Miller, Phillip Laplante, Bret Michael
The notion of a "tipping point" isn't new, al though the concept has relevance in differing ways. Academia seems to be at a tipping point, whereby the steady state of disciplinary specialization is about to give way to an interdisciplinary, collaborative

Free and Open Source Software

December 13, 2010
Author(s)
Keith Miller, Jeff Voas, Tom Costello
In this paper, free and open source software are discussed. Open source is an intellectual property destroyer. Nothing could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. Microsoft has an official open source presence

Mobile Applications: the Fifth Cycle

December 13, 2010
Author(s)
George Hurlburt, Jeff Voas, Keith Miller
Using the analogy of an existing smart car, this paper explores Power to the Edge , where the edge is commercial mobile computing. The world is poised for a 5th Cycle of computer capability, this time focused on the burgeoning phenomena of mobile computing

In Trust we Trust

October 14, 2010
Author(s)
Keith Miller, Jeff Voas, Phillip Laplante
The term trust has had a well understood definition for centuries. However after e-trust came along, and then cloud, where e-trust is not sufficient due to the non-touchability of a public cloud, the need to reconsider what trust means for a public cloud

Reliability of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems

October 14, 2010
Author(s)
Ram Chillarege, Jeff Voas
Cyber-physical systems feature a tight combination of a system's computational and physical elements. Understanding how to assess and design trustworthiness into these complex systems of systems remains an unsolved problem. This issue offers insights into

Ethics and the Cloud

September 30, 2010
Author(s)
Keith Miller, Jeff Voas
Cloud computing is an idea that's rapidly evolving. Still, the amount of money and attention devoted to this topic makes it seems sensible to discuss how ethicists view the kinds of changes in computing that are being called "the cloud." This department is