Stuart   Edward   Schechter
stuart at post.harvard.edu
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Researcher at Microsoft Research


Upcoming Conferences I'm Affiliated With

June 25-27, 2008 The Seventh Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS)
February, 2008 Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC08)
April 14, 2008 Usability, Psychology, and Security 2008(UPSEC)


Papers

The Emperor's New Security Indicators: An evaluation of website authentication and the effect of role playing on usability studies
Stuart E. Schechter, Rachna Dhamija, Andy Ozment, and Ian Fischer
The 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Oakland, CA. May 20-23, 2007.

Milk or Wine: Does Software Security Improve with Age?
Andy Ozment and Stuart E. Schechter
The 15th USENIX Security Symposium
Vancouver, BC. July 31-August 4, 2006

Bootstrapping the Adoption of Internet Security Protocols
Andy Ozment and Stuart E. Schechter
The Fifth Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
Cambridge, UK. June 26-28, 2006

Web Sites Should Not Need to Rely on Users to Secure Communications
Andy Ozment, Stuart E. Schechter, and Rachna Dhamija
W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication
New York, NY. March 15-16 2006

Inoculating SSH Against Address-Harvesting
Stuart E. Schechter, Jaeyeon Jung, Will Stockwell, and Cynthia McLain
The 13th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'06)
San Diego, CA. February, 2006

Toward Econometric Models of the Security Risk from Remote Attack
Stuart E. Schechter
IEEE Security & Privacy
January-February 2005 (Vol. 3, No .1), pp. 40--44

Fast Detection of Scanning Worm Infections
Jaeyeon Jung, Stuart E. Schechter, and Arthur W. Berger
Seventh International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID)
Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera, France. Sept. 15-17, 2004

Computer Security Strength & Risk: A Quantitative Approach
Stuart E. Schechter
Harvard University Doctoral Dissertation
Cambridge, MA. May, 2004

Toward Econometric Models of the Security Risk from Remote Attacks
Stuart E. Schechter
The Third Workshop on Economics and Information Security
Minneapolis, MN. May, 2004

Access For Sale: A New Class of Worm
Stuart E. Schechter and Michael D. Smith
The Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM 2003)
Washington, DC. October 27, 2003

Trusted Computing, Peer-to-Peer Distribution, and the Economics of Pirated Entertainment
Stuart E. Schechter, Rachel A. Greenstadt, and Michael D. Smith
The Second Workshop on Economics and Information Security
College Park, MD. May, 2003

How Much Security is Enough to Stop a Thief?
Stuart E. Schechter and Michael D. Smith
The Seventh International Financial Cryptography Conference
Gosier, Guadeloupe. January, 2003

How to Buy Better Testing: using competition to get the most security and robustness for your dollar
Stuart E. Schechter
Infrastructure Security Conference
Bristol, UK. October, 2002

Quantitatively Differentiating System Security
Stuart E. Schechter
The First Workshop on Economics and Information Security
Berkeley, CA. May, 2002

Ephemeral Instrumentation for Lightweight Program Profiling
Omri Traub, Stuart Schechter, and Michael D. Smith
Harvard University Technical Report
Cambridge, MA. June 2000

Anonymous Authentication of Membership in Dynamic Groups
Stuart E. Schechter, Alexander Hartemink, and Todd Parnell
The Third International Financial Cryptography Conference
Anguilla, BWI. 1999

Using Path Profiles to Predict HTTP Requests
Stuart E. Schechter, Murali Krishnan, and Michael D. Smith
The Seventh International World Wide Web Conference
Brisbane, Australia. 1998


Invited Conference Talks

May 9, 2005
SSH and Cascade Security Failures: Recent Attacks, New Defenses, and the Long Road Ahead in Securing Remote Access to Clustered Systems
Invited Speech at Cluster Computing and Grid 2005 in collaboration with the conference's Cluster Security Workshop.


Past Conference Affiliations

Program Chair Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII 2006)
Program Committee The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2004, 2005, 2006, & 2007)
Program Committee: The Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2005 & 2006)
General Chair: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February 2005


Personal

I am happily married to Dr. Jaeyeon Jung.
I am the proud father of Leia Jung.
I play Underwater hockey. It's a real sport. I swear!