Resources

Data

• LANL ARCS Data Sets: host and network data from LANL for attack analysis

Tools

Networking

• Mininet: prototyping emulator for SDN
• iPerf: network bandwidth measurement
• Wireshark: packet capture and analysis tool
• tcpdump: packet capture tool
• Scapy: packet manipulator for Linux and Python
• ns-3: network simulator

Systems

• Kali Linux: Linux distribution with security tools

Software

• Soot: static analysis for Java/Android

Paper reading and writing

• “How to Read a Paper”, S. Keshav, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2007.
• “How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper”, Roy Levin and David D. Redell, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 1983.
• “Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers”, S. Shaw, IEEE Conference on Software Engineering, 2003.

Conferences

Security

• Internet Society Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
• USENIX Security Symposium (Security)
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)

Security conference rankings, with links to other security conferences: https://people.engr.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm

Networking

• ACM SIGCOMM
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
• ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)
• USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
• ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
• IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)

Systems

• USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC)