{"51744":{"#nid":"51744","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Professor Addresses Deadliest Web Site Attacks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (June 23, 2006)\u003C\/strong\u003E--Alessandro Orso, assistant professor within the College\u0027s Computing Sciences \u0026amp; Systems (CSS) division, was cited in a recent \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E article for his research on countering Web-application attacks.\u00a0Orso is the PI on a $400,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Air Force to develop techniques against SQL injection. The title of the project is \u0022Preventing SQL Code Injection by Combining Static and Runtime Analysis.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany organizations need to store sensitive information, such as customer records or private documents, and make this information available over the network. For this reason, Web applications have become widely deployed in enterprise systems and on the Internet, and people use these applications daily when reading the news, paying bills, and shopping online. As the availability of these services grows however, companies are witnessing an increase in the number and sophistication of attacks that target them.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOrso\u0027s work combines static and dynamic program analysis techniques to identify, stop, and report these attacks against Web applications. \u0022It\u0027s hard to find companies glad to tell you that they are being attacked,\u0022 says Orso in the article, but with the help of his research, companies hopefully won\u0027t need to.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERead \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E recent article about the rise of SQL injection attacks by \u003Ca href=\u0022images\/news_articles\/2006\/abc_orso_090906.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclicking here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about Alex Orso, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/component\/option,com_peopledb\/task,view\/contact_id,285067566\/Itemid,238\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Alex Orso\u00a0is developing techniques to fight SQL injection attacks which are on the rise.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:12","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}