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Measuring Security Practices

This paper seeks to make progress on the prevalence of popular security practices and their relationship to security outcomes via the longitudinal empirical measurement... Louis F. DeKoven, Audrey Randall, Ariana Mirian, Gautam Akiwate, Ansel Blume, Lawrence K. Saul, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
From Communications of the ACM | September 2022

From Communications of the ACM

Sora: High-Performance Software Radio Using General-Purpose Multi-Core Processors

Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software-defined radio platforms... Kun Tan, He Liu, Jiansong Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Ji Fang, Geoffrey M. Voelker
From Communications of the ACM | January 2011

From Communications of the ACM

Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines

Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware... Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Amin Vahdat
From Communications of the ACM | October 2010

From Communications of the ACM

Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion

We all receive spam advertisements, but few of us have encountered a person who admits to following through on an offer and making a purchase. And yet, the relentlessness... Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage
From Communications of the ACM | September 2009

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Measuring Security Practices

Sora: High-Performance Software Radio Using General-Purpose Multi-Core Processors

Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines

Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion