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.
 

Selected Publications

Jeffery Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and John Pinkston.  "A Target Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection: Using DAML+OIL to Classify Intrusive Behaviors".  To appear, Knowledge Engineering Review - Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2004.  

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".  The 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.
 
Lalana Kagal, Jeffrey Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi, Filip Perich, and Tim Finin, "Vigil : Policy Based Access Control in Pervasive Computing Environments".  under review, The Journal of Computer Communications, Elsivier B.V., 2003
 
Sasikanth Avancha, Jeffery Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi and John Pinkston. "A Clustering Approach to Secure Sensor Networks".  Under review ACM SenSys, Los Angeles, CA, 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, Anupam Joshi and John Pinkston.  "Modeling Computer Attacks: An Ontology for Intrusion Detection".  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 12th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.  pages 1274 - 1278. St. Louis, MO, May 2003.
 
Jeffrey Undercoffer and Anupam Joshi.  "On Web, Semmantics, and data Mining: Intrusion Detection as a Case Study".   In the Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Next Generation Data Mining. Baltimore, MD, 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.