Research

Internet Security Group

Welcome to the home page of the Internet Security group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Security and Privacy are core technologies for enabling the full exploitation of the Internet for e-business. The development and successful deployment of e-business applications requires carefully engineered and comprehensive security solutions. Such solutions must address all aspects of system security at the platform, operating system, network, application and infrastructure levels. This involves development of new cryptographic techniques and algorithms, their secure implementations, the design of secure networking protocols and operating environments and mechanisms to monitor and maintain overall system integrity. Such security solutions need to be standardised to provide/preserve inter-operability and to ensure that these techniques are used in a correct way.

The Internet Security group is involved in all aspects of security as they pertain to the Internet. The group consists of Suresh Chari, Pau-Chen Cheng, Charanjit Jutla, J.R. Rao and Pankaj Rohatgi.

The group is working on several different projects in the Internet Security. We briefly describe each project and the relevant publications below.

Side Channel Cryptanalysis: Power Analysis, Electromagnetic Analysis

Partitioning Attacks on GSM Cards

Blue Box: A Host-Based Policy-Driven Intrusion Avoidance System

Privacy
Cryptography
Security for Pervasive Computing Applications
Virtual Private Networks (IPSec and Internet Key Exchange)
Secure Internet Multicast
Secure DNS

The group also has openings for people with a strong background in Cryptography, Security, Networking and Privacy and a keen interest in applying their skills to solve problems of substantial practical importance. Appointments range from permanent hires (Research Staff Members and Software Engineers) to temporary visits (visitors, summer interns and co-ops). If you would like to apply for any one of these positions, please get in touch with us .