Wolfpack Security and Privacy Research Lab
Welcome to the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Research (WSPR) Laboratory in the department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
The WSPR Laboratory (pronounced “whisper”) models, designs, builds, and validates technology that protects users, systems, and networks from malicious and privacy-infringing acts. The group’s seven faculty members and affiliated students work on all areas of cybersecurity, from designing new cryptographic constructs to ensure protected execution of code to empirical studies on how software is secured by developers; from finding flaws in existing operating systems to building systems resilient from known attacks; from detecting malicious activity such as malware and denial of service attacks to building networks and mechanisms to prevent abuse. The WSPR Lab works to secure all types of computer systems, from legacy telephone networks to emerging technologies like smartphones and Internet of Things devices.
How to Get Involved
If you are a student at NCSU and are interested in …
- cybersecurity research, look at the research page and the web pages of the WSPR Faculty and feel free to contact them directly.
- cybersecurity skills, get involved with the NCSU HackPack run by Dr. Kapravelos. Join the slack channel for more information.
If you are an industry organization seeking to collaborate, look at the research page and the web pages of the WSPR Faculty and feel free to contact them directly. You may also email our general contact alias, csc-wspr-lab@ncsu.edu.
Recent News
June 5, 2023: Our paper, ARGUS: A Framework for Staged Static Taint Analysis of GitHub Workflows and Actions has been accepted for publication at the 2023 USENIX Security Symposium.
April 14, 2023: Our paper, MSNetViews: Geographically Distributed Management of Enterprise Network Security Policy has been accepted for publication at the 2023 ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT).
April 7, 2023: Our paper, It's like flossing your teeth: On the Importance and Challenges of Reproducible Builds for Software Supply Chain Security has been accepted for publication at the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P).
April 3, 2023: Our paper, Finding Fixed Vulnerabilities with Off-the-Shelf Static Analysis has been accepted for publication at the 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P).
September 2, 2022: Our paper, Analysis of Payment Service Provider SDKs in Android has been accepted for publication at the 2022 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).