Georgetown SecLab
Located in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University, the CS SecLab is an academic and research facility that investigates problems relating to information assurance and computer and network security.
Current areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- data privacy
- cryptography
- forensics
- network security
- privacy enhancing technologies
- secure distributed systems
- tamper-evident systems
More information about the SecLab’s current projects is listed on the Projects page.
Current undergraduate and graduate students at Georgetown who are interested in computer security research should review the Projects page and contact one of the affiliated faculty.
Students who are interested in joining Georgetown and working in the SecLab should apply through the department’s regular admissions process, and state a preference for working with the SecLab in their application statements.
News
May 14, 2024'I can say I’m John Travolta... but I’m not John Travolt': Investigating the Impact of Changes to Social Media Verification Policies' on User Perceptions of Verified Accounts (with Carson Powers, Nickolas Gravel, Christopher Pellegrini, Micah Sherr, Michelle L. Mazurek, and Daniel Votipka) accepted to Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024.
May 14, 2024The Onion Unpeeled: User Perceptions vs. Realities of Tor's Security and Privacy Properties (Poster) (with Harel Berger, Tianjian Hu, Adam J. Aviv, and Micah Sherr) accepted to Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024.
March, 2024Ben Ujcich awarded an NSF CAREER award.
January, 2024Security Challenges of Intent-Based Networking (by Jiwon Kim, Dave (Jing) Tian, Hamed Okhravi, and Benjamin E. Ujcich) accepted to Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2024
December 13, 2023You can Find me Here: A Study of the Early Adoption of Geofeeds (by Rahel Fainchtein and Micah Sherr) accepted to Passive and Active Measurement Conference, 2024