About me
I am a CS PhD candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am
member of the GTISC CISEC lab
where I work under the supervision of Dr.
Mustaque Ahamad and Dr. Patrick Traynor as
graduate research assistant.
I completed my undergraduate degree in Electronic
and Communication Engineering at Universidad de
Panama, Panama. Then, I worked for almost 5 years as an information
security professional in Panama. After that, I was granted a Fulbright
scholarship to study a MS in Information Security at the College of
Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology which I completed in Spring
2007.
My research focuses on the analysis, design,
optimization and evaluation of network security protocols for large-scale
Internet systems such as VoIP and Web applications. In particular, I have
developed more robust, efficient and scalable authentication mechanisms in
this area. I am also interested in the security challenges of VoIP, web
applications, mobile platforms and cloud computing and in privacy
preserving technologies.
Conferences
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Italo Dacosta, Saurabh Chakradeo, Patrick Traynor
and Mustaque Ahamad One-Time Cookies: Preventing Session Hijacking
Attacks with Disposable Credentials , in submission
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Nilesh Nipane, Italo Dacosta and Patrick Traynor,
"Mix-In-Place" Anonymous Networking Using Secure Function
Evaluation, Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security
Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2011. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%)
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Italo Dacosta and Patrick Traynor,
Proxychain: Developing a Robust and Efficient Authentication
Infrastructure for Carrier-Scale VoIP Networks ,
Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), June 2010.
[pdf] (Acceptance Rate:
17.0%)
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Italo Dacosta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan,
Mustaque Ahamad and Patrick Traynor, Improving Authentication
Performance of Distributed SIP Proxies, Conference on
Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications
(IPTComm), July 2009. [pdf]
(Acceptance Rate: 43.0%)
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Italo Dacosta, Neel Mehta, Evan Metrock, and
Jonathon Giffin, Security analysis of an IP phone: Cisco
7960G, Conference on Principles, Systems and
Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTComm), July 2008.[pdf](Acceptance Rate: 30.0%)
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Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Arup Acharya, Mustaque
Ahamad, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Italo Dacosta and Charles Wright,
SERvartuka: Dynamic Distribution of State to Improve SIP Server
Scalability, 28th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2008. [pdf]
Journals
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Italo Dacosta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan,
Mustaque Ahamad and Patrick Traynor, Improving Authentication
Performance of Distributed SIP Proxies, IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol.22, no.11,
pp.1804-1812, Nov. 2011
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