I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in the College of Computing at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. I will be graduating at the end of the 2009-2010
academic year, and I'm looking broadly for a job in computer security research.
I am currently considering jobs in academia, industry labs, national labs, and
other government research facilities. However, I'm also open to exploring any
other interesting oportunities.
While working at Georgia Tech, I have been very fortunate to have Wenke Lee as my advisor and to work with all of the amazing faculty, staff, and students in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC).
My research interests include a broad range of topics related to computer security including host-based intrusion detection and prevention, operating system security, virtualization securtity, usable security, live and forensic memory analysis, and trusted platforms.
Application Materials
Publications
- J Wei, BD Payne, J Giffin, and C Pu. Soft-Timer Driven Transient Kernel Control Flow Attacks and Defense. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2008), Outstanding Paper Award, December 2008. pdf bibtex
- BD Payne and WK Edwards. A Brief Introduction to Usable Security. In IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Usable Security & Privacy, 12(3): 13 - 21, May/June 2008. pdf bibtex
- BD Payne, M Carbone, M Sharif, and W Lee. Lares: An Architecture for Secure Active Monitoring Using Virtualization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2008), May 2008. pdf bibtex
- BD Payne, M Carbone, and W Lee. Secure and Flexible Monitoring of Virtual Machines. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), December 2007. pdf bibtex
- BD Payne, R Sailer, R Caceres, R Perez, and W Lee. A Layered Approach to Simplified Access Control in Virtualized Systems. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 41(4): 12 - 19, July 2007. pdf bibtex
Work In Progress
- BD Payne, B Dolan-Gavitt, and W Lee. Gyrus: A Host-Based Security Framework For Distinguishing User-Intended And Malicious Network Traffic.
- BD Payne, B Dolan-Gavitt, and W Lee. Enabling Memory Analysis Applications by Locating Security Critical Data.
- B Dolan-Gavitt, BD Payne and W Lee. Leveraging Forensic Tools for Virtual Machine Introspection.
Open Source Software
- XenAccess is a virtual machine introspection library for Xen that allows you to build applications that view and analyze the memory contents of one virtual machine from the protected location of another virtual machine.
- Open1x is an open source implementation of the 802.1x supplicant protocol that enables Layer 2 authentication of wireless and wired network connections.
