Jeffrey L. Undercoffer

Presently working as researcher in the area of Computer Security and Intrusion Detection.

Admitted to PhD Candidacy, in Computer Science, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in June 2002.

Completed my MSc in Software Engineering at the University of Maryland in 1999, and my BSc in Computer Science from the University of Maryland -  University College in 1984.

Retired from the United States Secret Service on January 2, 1999 as an Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division.

Served as the Solutions Director, World Wide Security Practice at Unisys Corporation from 1999 until 2001.

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Selected Publications

Jeffery Undercoffer, Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi and John Pinkston. “Security for Sensor Networks”. Book Chapter. To appear Wireless Sensor Networks, edited by Taieb Znati, Krishna M. Sivalingam and Cauligi Raghavendra. Kluwar Academic Publishers, 2004.

Jeffrey Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and John Pinkston, “A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection”. To appear , The 18^th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.

Sasikanth Avancha, Jeffery Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi and John Pinkston. “A Clustering Approach to Secure Sensor Networks”. Under review ACM SenSys, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2003.

Jeffrey Undercoffer and Anupam Joshi. “Data Mining, Semantics and Intrusion Detection: What to dig for and Where to find it”. Book Chapter. In Next Generation Data Mining, edited by Hillol Kargupta, Anupam Joshi, K. Sivakumar and Yelena Yesha. MIT Press, 2003.

Jeffrey Undercoffer and John Pinkston. “Modeling Computer Attacks: A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection”. To appear, The Sixth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, Pittsburgh, PA. September, 2003.

James Butler, Jeffrey Undercoffer and John Pinkston. “Hidden Processes: The Implication for Intrusion Detection”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance. U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY. June, 2003.

Sasikanth Avancha, Jeffery Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi and John Pinkston. “Secure Sensor Networks for Perimeter Protection”. To appear, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 2003.

Hiren Shah, Jeffrey Undercoffer and Anupam Joshi. “Fuzzy Clustering for Intrusion Detection”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. St. Louis, MO, May 2003.

Jeffrey Undercoffer, Andrej Cedilnik, Filip Perich, Lalana Kagal, and Anupam Joshi. “A Secure Infrastructure For Service Discovery And Management In Pervasive Computing”, in ACM Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications: SPECIAL ISSUE Security in Mobile Computing Environments, Vol. 8, April 2003.

Jeffrey Undercoffer, Filip Perich and Charles Nicholas, “SHOMAR: A Secure Framework for Distributed Intrusion Detection Service”, under review – ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 2003.

Lalana Kagal, Jeffrey Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, “A Security Architecture Based on Trust Management for 
Pervasive Computing Systems'”. In Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Vancouver, British 
Columbia, Canada, July, 2002. 
 

Lalana Kagal, Jeffrey Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, “Vigil : Providing Trust for Enhanced Security in Pervasive Systems”. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County, Technical Report TR-CS-02-19, 2002.

Ed Perl, Jeffrey Undercoffer and Deepinder Sidhu. “A Perspective on the Scalability of MPLS Signaling. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Technical Report TR-CS-02-07, 2002.

Other Activities

Vice President and Director of Project Shelter, a Washington DC based non-profit corporation that supports and promotes the improvement of area wide shelters with particular attention given to shelters for children.