Crispin Cowan

Computer Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Security and Verification in Computing(19), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques(18), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques(17), Network Security and Intrusion Detection(13), Distributed systems and fault tolerance(11)

Publications54 total

Open and Closed Software Security Redux
IEEE Security & Privacy·2023
A toolkit for specializing production operating system code
PDXScholar (Portland State University)·2018· 6 citedOpen Access
Adaptation Space: Surviving non-maskable failures
PDXScholar (Portland State University)·2018· 5 citedOpen Access
Windows 8 Security: Supporting User Confidence
2013· 1 cited
User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems
2012· 215 cited
Windows 7 Security from a {UNIX} Perspective
2010
Turing Around the Security Problem
USENIX Security Symposium·2006
Linux security modules: general security support for the linux kernel
2004· 386 cited
Buffer overflows: attacks and defenses for the vulnerability of the decade
2004· 199 cited
Defcon Capture the Flag: defending vulnerable code from intense attack
2004· 45 cited
Survivability: Synergizing Security and Reliability
Advances in computers·2004· 3 cited
StackGuard: Simple Stack Smash Protection for GCC
2004· 62 cited
Pointguard TM : protecting pointers from buffer overflow vulnerabilities
2003· 347 cited
SAM: Security Adaptation Manager
2003· 21 cited
Software security for open-source systems
IEEE Security & Privacy·2003· 93 cited
Managing adaptive presentation executions in distributed multimedia database systems
2002· 14 cited
Fast concurrent dynamic linking for an adaptive operating system
2002· 36 cited
A wait-free algorithm for optimistic programming: HOPE realized
2002· 7 cited
Specialization classes: an object framework for specialization
2002· 23 cited
System survivability through security bug tolerance
2002
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Frequent Co-authors

Calton Pu(25), Jonathan Walpole(22), Steve Beattie(9), Perry Wagle(9), Charles Consel(8), Andrew P. Black(6), Dylan McNamee(6), Charles Krasic(5), Greg Kroah-Hartman(4), Shanwei Cen(4), Heather Hinton(4), Hanan Lutfiyya(4), Chris Wright(3), Tito Autrey(3), Gilles Muller(3), E.-N. Volanschi(3), Jon Inouye(2), L. Kethana(2), Kaichuang Zhang(2), Richard Staehli(2)