USENIX Courses

BlackIoT - IoT Botnet of High Wattage Devices Can Disrupt the Power Grid

Explores potential attacks on power grids using IoT botnets of high-wattage devices, demonstrating vulnerabilities and impacts through simulations on real-world models. Highlights interdependency between IoT and power grid security.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Who Is Answering My Queries - Understanding and Characterizing Interception of the DNS Resolution Path

Explores DNS interception by on-path devices, revealing widespread occurrence and potential security risks. Presents novel detection methods and analyzes data from global IP addresses to uncover concerning practices.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Analogy Cyber Security - From 0101 to Mixed Signals

Explores threats to sensor integrity in smart devices and their impact on system security. Discusses EMI interference, vulnerabilities in voice-controlled systems, and potential defenses for improving sensor security.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Modelling and Analysis of a Hierarchy of Distance Bounding Attacks

Presentation on extending applied pi-calculus to model distance bounding protocols, analyzing security properties, and introducing a new property for protecting uncompromised devices like contactless payment cards.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Characterizing and Understanding Phases of SRE Practices

Explores the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering practices, offering insights into various stages of implementation across key areas like incident response, postmortems, and monitoring to help teams assess and advance their SRE journey.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Citron - Distributed Range Lock Management with One-sided RDMA

Innovative distributed range lock management system using one-sided RDMA, enhancing concurrent access to shared storage with improved throughput and reduced latency compared to CPU-based approaches.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

SHADE - Enable Fundamental Cacheability for Distributed Deep Learning Training

Innovative caching system for distributed deep learning training, improving performance by prioritizing important data samples and enhancing cache hit ratios in I/O-intensive workloads.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Perseus - A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems

Innovative framework for detecting and analyzing fail-slow failures in cloud storage systems, reducing tail latency and providing insights into root causes through large-scale dataset analysis.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

HadaFS - A File System Bridging the Local and Shared Burst Buffer for Exascale

Innovative file system for exascale supercomputers, bridging local and shared burst buffers. Enhances scalability, performance, and data sharing while addressing metadata management and I/O challenges.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

ROLEX - A Scalable RDMA-oriented Learned Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Memory Systems

Scalable RDMA-oriented learned key-value store for disaggregated memory systems, improving performance on dynamic workloads and addressing challenges in data storage and retrieval.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Fisc - A Large-scale Cloud-native-oriented File System

Innovative cloud-native file system addressing challenges in container-based applications. Introduces lightweight client, DPU-based offloading, storage-aware mechanism, and full path QoS for improved performance and resource efficiency.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

MadFS - Per-File Virtualization for Userspace Persistent Memory Filesystems

Explores per-file virtualization for userspace persistent memory filesystems, introducing MadFS with embedded metadata, crash consistency, and optimistic concurrency control for improved performance and scalability.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Fast Application Launch on Personal Computing - Communication Devices

Innovative prefetcher Paralfetch speeds up app launches on personal devices through accurate request collection, pre-scheduling, and overlapped execution, outperforming existing prefetchers in tests.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

SkillDetective - Automated Policy-Violation Detection of Voice Assistant Applications in the Wild

Automated tool for detecting policy violations in voice assistant apps, analyzing 54,055 Alexa skills and 5,583 Google actions, identifying over 6,000 violations across 52 policy requirements.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Design and Verification of the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture

Explores Realms, a new confidential computing abstraction protecting data privacy in virtual machines. Introduces novel verification techniques for secure firmware in complex, concurrent systems.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk