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47
Citations
9943
World Ranking
6442
National Ranking
2867

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Matt Bishop is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on information and cyber security. Their body of work spans various subfields including information systems, artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, signal processing, and computer science applications.

The primary research topics addressed by Matt Bishop include:

  • Information and Cyber Security
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Teaching and Learning Programming
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

Key recent publications by Matt Bishop are:

  • Introduction to Computer Security, 2024, published in Cryptography
  • Addressing cyber security skills: the spectrum, not the silo, 2020, published in Computer Fraud & Security
  • A Praise for Defensive Programming: Leveraging Uncertainty for Effective Malware Mitigation, 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Beyond NVD: Cybersecurity meets the Semantic Web, 2021, presented at New Security Paradigms Workshop
  • Anomaly Detection for Science DMZs Using System Performance Data, 2020, presented at the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)

Matt Bishop has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Jun Dai
  • Steven Furnell
  • Lynn Futcher
  • Ida Ngambeki
  • Shiven Mian

Their work has been published in several venues, with recurrent contributions to the Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, UC Berkeley, Computer Fraud & Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and the New Security Paradigms Workshop.

In addition to journal and conference papers, Matt Bishop has contributed to book publications. An example is a work published by the Association for Computing Machinery titled Supplement to CSEC 2017: Foundational Cybersecurity Content and Instructional Guidance for Secondary and Postsecondary Cybersecurity Education, which is scheduled for 2025.

Among honors received, Matt Bishop was awarded the designation of ACM Senior Member in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Computer Security: Art and Science

    Matt Bishop

  • Introduction to Computer Security

    Matt Bishop

  • Checking for Race Conditions in File Accesses

    Matt Bishop;Michael Dilger

  • Refereed paper: Improving system security via proactive password checking

    Matt Bishop;Daniel V. Klein

  • What is computer security

    M. Bishop

  • A Critical Analysis of Vulnerability Taxonomies

    Matt Bishop;David Bailey

  • Property-based testing: a new approach to testing for assurance

    George Fink;Matt Bishop

  • Storm Clouds Rising: Security Challenges for IaaS Cloud Computing

    Brian Hay;Kara Nance;Matt Bishop

  • About Penetration Testing

    M. Bishop

  • A Taxonomy of UNIX System and Network Vulnerabilities

    Matt Bishop

  • Virtual Machine Introspection: Observation or Interference?

    K. Nance;M. Bishop;B. Hay

  • Defining the insider threat

    Matt Bishop;Carrie Gates

  • A New Method for Flow-Based Network Intrusion Detection Using the Inverse Potts Model

    Camila F. T. Pontes;Manuela M. C. de Souza;Joao J. C. Gondim;Matt Bishop

  • Testing C Programs for Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities.

    Eric Haugh;Matt Bishop

  • Modeling network intrusion detection alerts for correlation

    Jingmin Zhou;Mark Heckman;Brennen Reynolds;Adam Carlson

  • A Flexible Containment Mechanism for Executing Untrusted Code

    David S. Peterson;Matt Bishop;Raju Pandey

  • Is Anybody Home? Inferring Activity From Smart Home Network Traffic

    Bogdan Copos;Karl Levitt;Matt Bishop;Jeff Rowe

  • The Art and Science of Computer Security

    Matthew A. Bishop

  • The transfer of information and authority in a protection system

    Matt Bishop;Lawrence Snyder

  • Digital Forensics: Defining a Research Agenda

    Kara L. Nance;Brian Hay;Matt Bishop

  • Attack class: address spoofing

    L. Todd Heberlein;Matt Bishop

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl N. Levitt
Karl N. Levitt University of California, Davis
Leon J. Osterweil
Leon J. Osterweil University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lori A. Clarke
Lori A. Clarke University of Massachusetts Amherst
Keith Marzullo
Keith Marzullo University of Maryland, College Park
Xiaolin Li
Xiaolin Li Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Steven Furnell
Steven Furnell University of Nottingham
David Wagner
David Wagner University of California, Berkeley
James P. Crutchfield
James P. Crutchfield University of California, Davis
Dipak Ghosal
Dipak Ghosal University of California, Davis
Fillia Makedon
Fillia Makedon The University of Texas at Arlington

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