Benjamin R. Anderson

Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Dr. Tom Daniels

Office/Lab:
1207 Coover Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

Phone: 515-460-4953
Email: hawklan@iastate.edu

Background

I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Iowa State University with a focus on security and networks and studying under Dr. Tom Daniels. I received my B.S. in Computer Science in 2000, and worked in the High Availabilty Platform group at Motorola, Inc. until returning to Iowa State in 2003 to begin my graduate studies. My research interests are in the areas of intelligent attack agents, IPv6 attacks and educational applications of virtualization.

Publications

Andrew Hoernecke, Thad Gillispie, Benjamin Anderson, Thomas E. Daniels; The Role of Information Warfare in Information Assurance Education: A Legal and Ethical Perspective; 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; Honolulu, HI; June 2007. [PDF]
Benjamin Anderson, Thomas E. Daniels; Xen Worlds: Xen and the Art of Computer Engineering Education; In Proceedings of 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition; Chicago, IL; June 2006. [PDF]

Panels and Tutorials

Thomas E. Daniels, Benjamin Anderson; Tutorial - Xen Worlds: Xen and the Art of Security Education; CCS 2006. Alexandria, VA; November 2006.
Panel Member; Open vs. Closed Source Tools in Security Education; Annual Conference on Education in Information Security; Ames, IA; September 2006.

Projects

Xen Worlds: I am the lead student researcher and developer on the Xen Worlds Project, which uses virtualization to provide versatile virtual labs for education and research.
NetBottle: I am the lead student researcher for the NetBottle Project, a three-level effort to emulate real-world network traffic in a variety of testbed environments.

Presentations

Data Encryption Standard (DES) [PDF]
Advanced Encryption Standard(AES) [PDF]
Legal and Ethical Issues [PDF]
Malicious Logic [PDF][Virus Tree Diagram]

Awards

Cisco Systems Information Assurance Scholarship. Spring 2005.

Other Works

Unified Theory of Existence a look at "bringing together" creationism, intelligent design and evolution into a single, unified theory. [Funny]

Memberships

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ASEE - American Society for Engineering Education
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery