Title
Differential privacy for collaborative security
Abstract
Fighting global security threats with only a local view is inherently difficult. Internet network operators need to fight global phenomena such as botnets, but they are hampered by the fact that operators can observe only the traffic in their local domains. We propose a collaborative approach to this problem, in which operators share aggregate information about the traffic in their respective domains through an automated query mechanism. We argue that existing work on differential privacy and type systems can be leveraged to build a programmable query mechanism that can express a wide range of queries while limiting what can be learned about individual customers. We report on our progress towards building such a mechanism, and we discuss opportunities and challenges of the collaborative security approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1752046.1752047
EUROSEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
global phenomenon,internet network operator,programmable query mechanism,collaborative security approach,automated query mechanism,global security threat,collaborative approach,differential privacy,aggregate information,local view,local domain,botnets,type system
Internet privacy,Differential privacy,Computer security,Computer science,Botnet,International security,Operator (computer programming),Internet network,Limiting
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.72
27
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jason Reed11286.37
Adam J. Aviv244335.85
Daniel Wagner315611.44
Andreas Haeberlen4150597.07
Benjamin C. Pierce54196302.91
Jonathan M. Smith61689238.40