Eric Pauley

Eric Pauley

PhD Student & NSF Graduate Research Fellow

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel.

My current research focuses on practical security for the public cloud. I am exploring how cloud providers can improve privacy and availability for cloud tenants and their customers. I have also done work on software security (e.g., fuzzing) and machine learning security.

Email: epauley@cs.wisc.edu

Publications

Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Patrick McDaniel (2023). The Space of Adversarial Strategies. USENIX Security 2023 (to appear).

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Eric Pauley, Kyle Domico, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel (2022). EIPSIM: Modeling Secure IP Address Allocation at Cloud Scale.

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Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Danfeng Zhang, Patrick McDaniel (2022). Performant Binary Fuzzing without Source Code using Static Instrumentation. IEEE CNS ‘22.

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Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Patrick McDaniel (2022). Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Cameras and Other IoT Devices.

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Recent Posts

The Need for Standardized Secret Scanning
It’s no secret that leaving credentials in source code is risky, especially when tools like GitHub make it easy to share code publicly with a single command. The major players have long had tooling to help prevent this like GitHub Secret Scanning, and GitHub also makes it possible (at least in theory) for third-party providers to join the program.
Eric Pauley
Dec 16, 2022 4 min read
Leveraging Mispriced AWS Spot Instances for Fun and Savings
AWS creates a market for spot instance pricing, but this market is inefficient as customers don’t consider all instance types available. Leveraging this mispricing can save even more than spot pricing already does.
Eric Pauley
Oct 20, 2022 8 min read
Saving 90% vs. GitHub Codespaces with EC2 Spot Instances
GitHub Codespaces offer convenient hosting for VSCode at a high price. Using EC2 spot instances and Wireguard we can achieve a more flexible setup for nearly 90% less.
Eric Pauley
Oct 9, 2022 4 min read
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