Announcements

No Class Wednesday and Friday

Folks,

As proposals are due Friday, I am cancelling class both today and Friday to give you more time to work on them.

Next Monday, please be prepared to give a 10- to 15- minute talk about your proposal, especially the planned approach. But we’ll do this next week (January 31) so it won’t interfere with your proposal writing.

I’ll be on the class Zoom just in case anyone has questions.

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

INSuRE Spring 2022 — Orientation Recording

Folks,

The recording for the INSuRE Orientation has been posted at:

see Canvas for link

If you have any questions or difficulty accessing the link and/or video, please let Jordan Hazelip (see Canvas for email) know.

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

INSuRE Hub Orientation — Spring 2022

Hi, everyone,

Here is the information about the INSuRE Hub Orientation I mentioned yesterday. I encourage you to Zoom into it if you can.

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

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Hello All,

Welcome again to the Spring 2022 Session of INSuRE!

For those of you new to the INSuRE Program, it is highly encouraged you attend this orientation. This orientation offers insight of what you can do within your INSuRE Hub Space, deliverables expectations, and how to properly communicate your work! Questions are encouraged to be asked during this time.

If you choose to attend this orientation, please be in the Zoom meeting promptly by 1:30pm Eastern Time. Again, while this is not mandatory, it is highly encouraged to attend. A Google Calendar Invite will be sent shortly.

Orientation Agenda

• 1:30pm Eastern Time
  • Introduction
  • Explanation of Today’s Topics to Discuss
• 1:35pm to 2:05pm Eastern Time
  • Tour of INSuRE Hub
  • Tips for a Successful Project Space
  • Macros, Macros, Macros!
    • Schedule Development
    • Progress Listings
    • Works Pending or Completed (i.e., Milestones)
• 2:05pm to 2:15pm Eastern Time
  • Expectations of Student Deliverables
  • Open for Questions

Zoom Issues

• If you are having difficulty coming into the Open House session, please email Jordan at see Canvas for email. They will have their email open and monitoring for concerns about being stuck in the waiting room or needing the Zoom link resent.

Zoom Invitation

• Topic: INSuRE Hub Orientation — Spring 2022
• Time: January 21st, 2022 at 1:30pm to 2:15pm Eastern Time
• Join from PC, Mac, Linux: see Canvas for link
  • If you would like to access the open house via phone or web browser, please contact Jordan at see Canvas for email. It is highly recommended against using the phone or web browser feature. Navigate to Zoom.us to download the latest desktop copy of Zoom.

Respectfully,

INSuRE Project Operations

Office hour moved to Monday

Folks,

I need to cancel today’s office hour.

I will hold a make-up office hour on next Monday, January 24, from 1pm to 2pm. The Zoom link will be the same.

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

Teams and ISO Projects ** UPDATE **

Folks,

A couple of late-breaking announcements:

• The minimum team size is 4. There is no upper limit, but try not to go over 6 team members.
• As a reminder, the Information Security Office has proposed some projects. Please let me know if you are interested in any of them or are bidding on them. For those, and those only, a team of size 3 or more is acceptable. If you want to bid on both external projects and ISO projects, your team should be 4 or more (or, if it is 6, for the ISO projects, you could split into two teams of 3).
• Attached are slides from the managers of the INSuRE project about what is expected. It's basically what we went over in class, but it does contain detailed instructions on using EasyChair to submit your bids. On slide 2, there is a comment about a CFP coming out in March 2022. That is not out, and does not apply to us.
• Again, the submission site is at EasyChair, and the URL is see Canvas for link

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

Bid Link

Folks,

The link for submission to EasyChair is this:

see Canvas for the link

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

Teams and ISO Projects

Hi, folks,

I have just posted 6 proposed projects from the UC Davis Information Security Office (ISO). Go to the home page for the class in Canvas, and click on “Projects from the UC Davis Information Security Office”. Please see if any of them interest you, and feel free to submit a bid on one (or more) of them. If you do, follow the instructions for bids, except upload it only to Canvas and not to INSuREHub. Also, let me know you have done so. Each team must submit at least 3 bids, so I can count any you submit to the ISO.

I have also posted a list of teams and team numbers, and the projects each team is interested in (by team and by project). Each team must have at least 3, and no more than 5, team members. I hope this enables teams with less than 3 members, and students who have not yet joined a team, to hook up together.

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

URGENT: Requirements and Due Date for Bids

Folks,

Here are the official instructions for submitting bids, which are due by 11:59pm on Tuesday, January 18. You must submit to both EasyChair and Canvas. I will announce the EasyChair link when it becomes available.

Here are the requirements:

• Bids are due on January 18th, 2022 (11:59pm PT)
• Submissions will be handled through EasyChair.
• Each team must submit AT LEAST THREE (3) bids.

A bid (submitted as a single PDF) must include the following:

• A cover page stating:
  • Official problem title, agency, and name(s) of the technical directors proposing the problem (e.g., “Black-Box Entropy Estimation&rdqup;, NIST, Kerry McKay)
  • Name(s) and affiliation(s) of all students on the team, as well as the supervising faculty.
  • Institutions with multiple teams should number their teams, e.g., Team 1
• Main body of the bid with the four (4) sections:
  1. Personal statement of interest
  2. Description of research problem
  3. Expected outcome(s)
  4. Description of student’s skills, knowledge, and abilities as detailed in the document “Bid Template and Rubric” (see assignment)

To submit through EasyChair:

• One EasyChair submission per bid
  • The link to do this will be provided later
• List all faculty and all students as authors
• Title of submission must follow this naming convention:
  YourUniversity_TeamNumber_OfficialProblemTitle_Agency_LastName(s)ofTD(s)
  • For example: UCD_Team3_Black-BoxEntropyEstimation_NIST_McKay
• Upload the document as specified above as one PDF

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

INSuRE Open House

Folks,

From the INSuRE managers. Try to Zoom in if you can; it's a chance to talk directly to the sponsors.

Also, bids are now due on Tuesday, January 18. The Information Security Office is also preparing proposals they are willing to sponsor; I should have those by Monday and will post them to canvas, with an announcement, as soon as I get them. The link to the attached PDF file the message refer to is on Canvas.

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

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Hello All,

Welcome to the Spring 2022 session of INSuRE.

Here is the official notification and logistics of the Open House this Friday, 1/14/2022. Technical Directors (TDs) are to be assigned breakout rooms. Please be in the Zoom meeting promptly by 1:30pm Eastern Time, but please feel free to be as early as 1:20pm as the waiting room will be available.

Rules for the Open House

1. When you join the Zoom session on Friday, you need to change your display name to University/Agency/Lab(Group#)_FullName.
   • Example: CSUSB(1)_JordanHazelip
     • Note: For your convenience, a video attached to this announcement in Canvas titled “How to rename in zoom.mov” will show you how to do this if you are not familiar with this process.
     • Technical Directors: You have a total of 1.5 hours to present your problems/projects.
       • For TDs with multiple projects, please be ready to speak on each of your projects offered this term.
     • Students: You may freely move between breakout rooms.
       • Students should have a way to communicate with each other outside of Zoom to discuss rooms to switch to or to bring attention to. (e.g., Slack, Teams, Text., etc.)
       • We are asking once you are in a session that you stay in the session for a meaningful amount of time. (e.g., 5 to 10 minutes)

Friday Meeting Agenda

• 1:30pm Eastern Time
  • Introduction
  • Explanation of Rules
  • Student Expectations
• 1:50pm to 3:20pm Eastern Time
  • Students may use this time to move around the environment from Technical Director to Technical Director on their own. Students are encouraged to do so as a group.
  • Breakout rooms will be named according to the Technical Director. As some Technical Directors will be hosting multiple projects, they will be discussing multiple projects at the same time.
  • All project titles in the attached PDF are active hyperlinks to the projects. Please familiarize yourselves with the project descriptions to make the most of your time as students with the Technical Directors.
    • Note: Any addition or removal of projects will be documented actively on the INSuRE Problems for Spring 2022 page. The PDF on Canvas may become outdated due to this fluid nature of the additions and removal of projects.
• 3:20pm to 3:30pm Eastern Time
  • Next Steps Discussion (Bid Submissions, Student Orientation Date) with Jordan

Zoom Issues

• If you are having difficulty coming into the Open House session, please email Jordan at jhazelip@caecommunity.org. They will have their email open and monitoring for concerns about being stuck in the waiting room or needing the Zoom link resent.

Zoom Invitation

• Topic: INSuRE Open House — Spring 2022
• Time: January 14th, 2022 at 01:20pm Eastern Time
• Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: see Canvas for Zoom link
  • If you would like to access the open house via phone, please contact Jordan at jhazelip@caecommunity.org. Due to the use of breakout rooms within the Open House, it is highly recommended against using the call-in feature.

Respectfully,

Office Hours and INSuREHub Access

Hi, folks,

Everyone should have received credentials for accessing INSuREHub. If you have not, please let me know immediately. The current list of projects is posted there.

The list of projects assignment is due on January 13, and the bids on Tuesday, January 18.

Second, here are my office hours for the term, effective this week:

Tuesdays at 12:10pm–1:00pm
Wednesdays at 1:10pm–2:00pm
Thursdays at 3:10pm–4:00pm

We’ll use Zoom until the campus opens for in-person instruction. It’s the same Zoom meeting as before:

Zoom information on Canvas

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

Zoom information on Canvas

Office Hours for the first week

Hi, folks,

For this week, my office hours will be:

• Thursday January 6: 2:00pm–3:00pm
• Friday January 7: 10:30am–11:30am

They will be over Zoom. Please use the Zoom link below.

I will undoubtedly change these next week, to office hours for the rest of the quarter (I hope).

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

Zoom information on Canvas

First Day of Class

Hello, everyone,

Welcome to ECS 289M, Research in Computer Security.

As the University is requiring, we'll be remote for the first week (at least). We'll use Zoom for this class. The link is in your Zoom area on Canvas; just n case, here it is:

Zoom information on Canvas

See you at 3:10pm on Monday!

Hope this helps, and stay safe,

Matt Bishop

Matt Bishop Department of Computer Science University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616-8562 USA

Last modified: January 9, 2022 Winter Quarter 2022