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Rustam Aslam
dblp:338/6138
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Storage systems · 100% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Malware analysis · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Operating systems · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Malware analysis › ransomware
ransomware detection |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Seamlessly Safeguarding Data Against Ransomware Attacks · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2023 |
Storage systems › storage reliability
data recovery |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Seamlessly Safeguarding Data Against Ransomware Attacks · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2023 |
Storage systems
storage reliability |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Seamlessly Safeguarding Data Against Ransomware Attacks · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2023 |
Operating systems › resource management › memory management
page cache |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Seamlessly Safeguarding Data Against Ransomware Attacks · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
page cache management · 2.0data synchronization · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Seamlessly Safeguarding Data Against Ransomware AttacksabstractEncryption has become an indispensable technology for preserving confidentiality. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have re-purposed this technology to deny users access to their data. This trend has sparked an onslaught of ransomware attacks, that resulted in several victims being extorted to pay ransoms in return for restoring their maliciously encrypted data. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel runtime solution that seamlessly defends against cryptographic ransomware. A key observation made by this work is that maliciously encrypted data is initially buffered in the OS's page cache before it is flushed to the underlying storage device. Based on this observation, we develop a solution that efficiently manages data synchronization between the memory and storage subsystems to prevent maliciously encrypted data from being permanently committed to the underlying storage. We extensively validate the robustness of this approach against more than one thousand ransomware samples and show that our design reliably restores all encrypted files. Furthermore, our solution is resilient to ransomware that employ techniques including master boot record infection and multi-threaded attacks. Finally, an evaluation of our proof-of-concept implementation shows minimal performance impact while running a mix of compute and I/O bound applications. Abdulrahman Abu Elkhail, Nada Lachtar, Duha Ibdah, Rustam Aslam, Anys Bacha, Hafiz Malik |
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. | 4 |