Timothy E. Levin

 Research Associate Professor


  
Monterey, CA  93943

phone: (831) 656-2239
fax: (831) 656-3339
e-mail: levin at nps edu
CISR: http://cisr.nps.edu


 

      Interests


My primary research interests are in the areas of dynamic, adaptive security policies, high assurance and multilevel secure computing systems, and the application of formal methods to the construction of secure computing systems, including the demonstration of correspondence between the various representations of a system (viz., those that are at different abstract levels).

Background    

I have worked on the design, development and formal verification of high-assurance  computer systems since 1985, which has provided to me the relatively rare opportunities to: (1) develop a formal computer-security policy model (as well as covert channel analysis and other formal artifacts) that has been rigorously evaluated by the NSA, (2) formally verify the security properties of a commercially-fielded product; and (3) define a security requirements profile for high assurance separation kernels that has been nationally reviewed, and accepted as a standard by the U.S.Government. More about background

     Research

I work within the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR).  My current research projects are: 3Dsec: Trustworthy System Security through 3-D Integrated Hardware; TCX - Trusted Computing Exemplar; Security Domain Model; MYSEA - Monterey Security Architectures; Global Information Grid Security Support; and High Assurance Platforms.

Past CISR Projects include:
SecureCoreRCsec - Adaptive Security and Separation in Reconfigurable Hardware; Emergency Response for Cyber Infrastructure Management; UDP and Collaboration Services; Avionic Authentication Project; QoSS - Quality of Security Service; MSHN - The Management System for Heterogeneous Networks; High Assurance MLS LAN - Multi-Level Secure Local Area Network.

Publications 

My publications are listed here.

      Students 

The students that I have advised are listed here.

       Courses 

I developed the Advanced Topics in Computer Security class (NPS course CS4614), and taught it from 2001 through 2007.

           Other 

I like to hike, play music (guitar), write (political satire and fiction), and make digital pictures. Reading is like breathing.    
                                If you have questions or comments please contact me at the email address above.  -Tim
    Revision Date: 22 December, 2009
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