Matthias Vallentin
Short Bio
I am doctoral student in computer science at
UC Berkeley, where I have the good fortune of being advised by Vern
Paxson.
I also have an office at the International Computer Science
Institute (ICSI), where I collaborate with folks
from the networking group.
Before moving to California, I received a B.S. and M.S. from the Technische
Universität München.
Contact
- Email: vallentin@icir.org / vallentin@cs.berkeley.edu
- Phone: +1 510 666-2938 (ICSI)
- Twitter: @mavam
Research
My research interests primarily cover large-scale network intrusion detection and high-performance traffic analysis. Most of my current work focuses on network forensics in conjunction with the Bro network security monitor.
Recent Publications
My research page contains a complete list of papers and slides.
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Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, and Matthias Vallentin. An Assessment Of Overt Malicious Activity Manifest In Residential Networks. Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), July 2011.
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Yahel Ben-David, Shaddi Hasan, Joyojeet Pal, Matthias Vallentin, Saurabh Panjwani, Philipp Gutheim, Jay Chen, and Eric Brewer. Computing Security in the Developing World: A Case for Multidisciplinary Research. 5th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR). Washington, D.C., June 2011.
Teaching
At UC Berkeley I have been a teaching assistant for the undergraduate computer security course.
Blog
The blog archive contains the full list of articles; excerpt pages are also available.
Recent Entries
| December 16, 2011 | High-Level Network Traffic Profiling |
| June 22, 2011 | Better NIDS Performance by Tracking Roaming Users |
| June 15, 2011 | Omni, Take Two |
| June 14, 2011 | A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters |
| June 12, 2011 | Analyzing Facebook Webchat Sessions with Bro |
Tags
- bro
- browser
- C++
- cluster
- cookies
- exploits
- intrusion detection
- linux
- math
- meta programming
- metasploit
- MITM
- probability
- reverse engineering
- sidejacking
- SMTP
- statistics
- theory
- TLS
- traffic analysis
- usb
- wireless
Miscellaneous
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RSS feeds on computer security, software engineering, and applied statistics:
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sec-loop: covers computer security topics with an emphasis on Internet security.
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new-school-coding: concerns modern software engineering principles, distributed systems, and high-performance application stacks.
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stat-loop: involves applied statistics and R tricks.
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