Security Papers from the 2000s

This webpage is an attempt to assemble a ranking of top-cited security papers from the 2000s. The ranking has been created based on citations of papers published at top security conferences. More details are available here.

Top-cited papers from 2009 ⌄

  1. 1
    Yao Liu, Michael K. Reiter, and Peng Ning:
    False data injection attacks against state estimation in electric power grids.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    4010 cites at Google Scholar
    2082% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage:
    Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    3068 cites at Google Scholar
    1570% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    C. Christopher Erway, Alptekin Küpçü, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Roberto Tamassia:
    Dynamic provable data possession.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    1942 cites at Google Scholar
    957% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    De-anonymizing Social Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2009
    1894 cites at Google Scholar
    931% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Qian Wang, Cong Wang, Jin Li, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou:
    Enabling Public Verifiability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing.
    European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2009
    1616 cites at Google Scholar
    779% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    William Enck, Machigar Ongtang, and Patrick D. McDaniel:
    On lightweight mobile phone application certification.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    1505 cites at Google Scholar
    719% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Kevin D. Bowers, Ari Juels, and Alina Oprea:
    HAIL: a high-availability and integrity layer for cloud storage.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    1433 cites at Google Scholar
    680% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Melissa Chase and Sherman S. M. Chow:
    Improving privacy and security in multi-authority attribute-based encryption.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009
    1266 cites at Google Scholar
    589% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Bennet Yee, David Sehr, Gregory Dardyk, J. Bradley Chen, Robert Muth, Tavis Ormandy, Shiki Okasaka, Neha Narula, and Nicholas Fullagar:
    Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2009
    1081 cites at Google Scholar
    488% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Ulrich Bayer, Paolo Milani Comparetti, Clemens Hlauschek, Christopher Krügel, and Engin Kirda:
    Scalable, Behavior-Based Malware Clustering.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2009
    995 cites at Google Scholar
    441% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2008 ⌄

  1. 1
    Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov:
    Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2008
    3736 cites at Google Scholar
    2214% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten:
    Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2008
    1933 cites at Google Scholar
    1097% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, and David A. Molnar:
    Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2008
    1808 cites at Google Scholar
    1020% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Guofei Gu, Roberto Perdisci, Junjie Zhang, and Wenke Lee:
    BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2008
    1675 cites at Google Scholar
    937% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Guofei Gu, Junjie Zhang, and Wenke Lee:
    BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2008
    1274 cites at Google Scholar
    689% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Ben Adida:
    Helios: Web-based Open-Audit Voting.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2008
    1159 cites at Google Scholar
    618% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Artem Dinaburg, Paul Royal, Monirul Islam Sharif, and Wenke Lee:
    Ether: malware analysis via hardware virtualization extensions.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2008
    1069 cites at Google Scholar
    562% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel:
    Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2008
    1057 cites at Google Scholar
    555% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Dan Bogdanov, Sven Laur, and Jan Willemson:
    Sharemind: A Framework for Fast Privacy-Preserving Computations.
    European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2008
    1054 cites at Google Scholar
    553% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky, and Feng Xiao:
    SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2008
    1011 cites at Google Scholar
    526% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2007 ⌄

  1. 1
    John Bethencourt, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters:
    Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2007
    7152 cites at Google Scholar
    3316% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Randal C. Burns, Reza Curtmola, Joseph Herring, Lea Kissner, Zachary N. J. Peterson, and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Provable data possession at untrusted stores.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    4185 cites at Google Scholar
    1899% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Ari Juels and Burton S. Kaliski Jr.:
    Pors: proofs of retrievability for large files.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    2997 cites at Google Scholar
    1331% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Hovav Shacham:
    The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone: return-into-libc without function calls (on the x86).
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    2109 cites at Google Scholar
    907% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters:
    Attribute-based encryption with non-monotonic access structures.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    1577 cites at Google Scholar
    653% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Andreas Moser, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda:
    Limits of Static Analysis for Malware Detection.
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2007
    1333 cites at Google Scholar
    537% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Guofei Gu, Phillip A. Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Martin W. Fong, and Wenke Lee:
    BotHunter: Detecting Malware Infection Through IDS-Driven Dialog Correlation.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2007
    1221 cites at Google Scholar
    483% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Ling Cheung and Calvin C. Newport:
    Provably secure ciphertext policy ABE.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    1175 cites at Google Scholar
    461% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Heng Yin, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda:
    Panorama: capturing system-wide information flow for malware detection and analysis.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2007
    1141 cites at Google Scholar
    445% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Dakshi Agrawal, Selçuk Baktir, Deniz Karakoyunlu, Pankaj Rohatgi, and Berk Sunar:
    Trojan Detection using IC Fingerprinting.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2007
    1133 cites at Google Scholar
    441% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2006 ⌄

  1. 1
    Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai, and Brent Waters:
    Attribute-based encryption for fine-grained access control of encrypted data.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    7275 cites at Google Scholar
    3892% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Reza Curtmola, Juan A. Garay, Seny Kamara, and Rafail Ostrovsky:
    Searchable symmetric encryption: improved definitions and efficient constructions.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    3528 cites at Google Scholar
    1836% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross:
    Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.
    International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), 2006
    3380 cites at Google Scholar
    1755% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, David L. Dill, and Dawson R. Engler:
    EXE: automatically generating inputs of death.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    1676 cites at Google Scholar
    820% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Marco Barreno, Blaine Nelson, Russell Sears, Anthony D. Joseph, and J. D. Tygar:
    Can machine learning be secure?
    ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2006
    1265 cites at Google Scholar
    594% above average of year
    Visited: Apr-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Xinming Ou, Wayne F. Boyer, and Miles A. McQueen:
    A scalable approach to attack graph generation.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    943 cites at Google Scholar
    418% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Mihir Bellare and Gregory Neven:
    Multi-signatures in the plain public-Key model and a general forking lemma.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    932 cites at Google Scholar
    411% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Stefan Berger, Ramón Cáceres, Kenneth A. Goldman, Ronald Perez, Reiner Sailer, and Leendert van Doorn:
    vTPM: Virtualizing the Trusted Platform Module.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2006
    855 cites at Google Scholar
    369% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick D. McDaniel, and Brent Waters:
    Secure attribute-based systems.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2006
    822 cites at Google Scholar
    351% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Martín Casado, Tal Garfinkel, Aditya Akella, Michael J. Freedman, Dan Boneh, and Nick McKeown:
    SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2006
    781 cites at Google Scholar
    329% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2005 ⌄

  1. 1
    Martín Abadi, Mihai Budiu, Úlfar Erlingsson, and Jay Ligatti:
    Control-flow integrity.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2005
    2706 cites at Google Scholar
    1335% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    James Newsome and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and SignatureGeneration of Exploits on Commodity Software.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2005
    2472 cites at Google Scholar
    1211% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Giuseppe Ateniese, Kevin Fu, Matthew Green, and Susan Hohenberger:
    Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes with Applications to Secure Distributed Storage.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2005
    2199 cites at Google Scholar
    1066% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    James Newsome, Brad Karp, and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Polygraph: Automatically Generating Signatures for Polymorphic Worms.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2005
    1269 cites at Google Scholar
    573% above average of year
    Visited: Apr-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha, Sanjit A. Seshia, Dawn Xiaodong Song, and Randal E. Bryant:
    Semantics-Aware Malware Detection.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2005
    1189 cites at Google Scholar
    531% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Tadayoshi Kohno, Andre Broido, and Kimberly C. Claffy:
    Remote Physical Device Fingerprinting.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2005
    1117 cites at Google Scholar
    493% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Xinming Ou, Sudhakar Govindavajhala, and Andrew W. Appel:
    MulVAL: A Logic-based Network Security Analyzer.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2005
    995 cites at Google Scholar
    428% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, and Virgil D. Gligor:
    Distributed Detection of Node Replication Attacks in Sensor Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2005
    984 cites at Google Scholar
    422% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    V. Benjamin Livshits and Monica S. Lam:
    Finding Security Vulnerabilities in Java Applications with Static Analysis.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2005
    975 cites at Google Scholar
    417% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Steven J. Murdoch and George Danezis:
    Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2005
    899 cites at Google Scholar
    377% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2004 ⌄

  1. 1
    Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul F. Syverson:
    Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
    6666 cites at Google Scholar
    2731% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Reiner Sailer, Xiaolan Zhang, Trent Jaeger, and Leendert van Doorn:
    Design and Implementation of a TCG-based Integrity Measurement Architecture.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
    1678 cites at Google Scholar
    613% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Ernest F. Brickell, Jan Camenisch, and Liqun Chen:
    Direct anonymous attestation.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2004
    1441 cites at Google Scholar
    512% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Hovav Shacham, Matthew Page, Ben Pfaff, Eu-Jin Goh, Nagendra Modadugu, and Dan Boneh:
    On the effectiveness of address-space randomization.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2004
    1381 cites at Google Scholar
    486% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Ke Wang and Salvatore J. Stolfo:
    Anomalous Payload-Based Network Intrusion Detection.
    International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2004
    1345 cites at Google Scholar
    471% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Hyang-Ah Kim and Brad Karp:
    Autograph: Toward Automated, Distributed Worm Signature Detection.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
    1322 cites at Google Scholar
    461% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Dahlia Malkhi, Noam Nisan, Benny Pinkas, and Yaron Sella:
    Fairplay - Secure Two-Party Computation System.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
    1237 cites at Google Scholar
    425% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Steven M. Bellovin:
    A Look Back at "Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite".
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2004
    1173 cites at Google Scholar
    398% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Niels Provos:
    A Virtual Honeypot Framework.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2004
    1125 cites at Google Scholar
    378% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    David Molnar and David A. Wagner:
    Privacy and security in library RFID: issues, practices, and architectures.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2004
    1111 cites at Google Scholar
    372% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2003 ⌄

  1. 1
    Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2003
    4449 cites at Google Scholar
    1530% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia:
    LEAP: efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
    2796 cites at Google Scholar
    924% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Donggang Liu and Peng Ning:
    Establishing pairwise keys in distributed sensor networks.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
    2662 cites at Google Scholar
    875% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Tal Garfinkel and Mendel Rosenblum:
    A Virtual Machine Introspection Based Architecture for Intrusion Detection.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2003
    2305 cites at Google Scholar
    745% above average of year
    Visited: Apr-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    David Brumley and Dan Boneh:
    Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2003
    1408 cites at Google Scholar
    416% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Ari Juels, Ronald L. Rivest, and Michael Szydlo:
    The blocker tag: selective blocking of RFID tags for consumer privacy.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
    1393 cites at Google Scholar
    410% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Mihai Christodorescu and Somesh Jha:
    Static Analysis of Executables to Detect Malicious Patterns.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2003
    1093 cites at Google Scholar
    300% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    John Bellardo and Stefan Savage:
    802.11 Denial-of-Service Attacks: Real Vulnerabilities and Practical Solutions.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2003
    1050 cites at Google Scholar
    285% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    George Danezis, Roger Dingledine, and Nick Mathewson:
    Mixminion: Design of a Type III Anonymous Remailer Protocol.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2003
    1032 cites at Google Scholar
    278% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Cullen Linn and Saumya K. Debray:
    Obfuscation of executable code to improve resistance to static disassembly.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2003
    1030 cites at Google Scholar
    277% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2002 ⌄

  1. 1
    Laurent Eschenauer and Virgil D. Gligor:
    A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    5594 cites at Google Scholar
    1980% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Blaise Gassend, Dwaine E. Clarke, Marten van Dijk, and Srinivas Devadas:
    Silicon physical random functions.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    2292 cites at Google Scholar
    752% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Oleg Sheyner, Joshua W. Haines, Somesh Jha, Richard Lippmann, and Jeannette M. Wing:
    Automated Generation and Analysis of Attack Graphs.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2002
    1997 cites at Google Scholar
    643% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Stuart Staniford, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver:
    How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2002
    1778 cites at Google Scholar
    561% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    Cliff Changchun Zou, Weibo Gong, and Donald F. Towsley:
    Code red worm propagation modeling and analysis.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    1249 cites at Google Scholar
    364% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Michael J. Freedman and Robert Tappan Morris:
    Tarzan: a peer-to-peer anonymizing network layer.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    1241 cites at Google Scholar
    361% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Paul Ammann, Duminda Wijesekera, and Saket Kaushik:
    Scalable, graph-based network vulnerability analysis.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    1233 cites at Google Scholar
    359% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Frédéric Cuppens and Alexandre Miège:
    Alert Correlation in a Cooperative Intrusion Detection Framework.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2002
    1180 cites at Google Scholar
    339% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Ninghui Li, John C. Mitchell, and William H. Winsborough:
    Design of a Role-Based Trust-Management Framework.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2002
    1119 cites at Google Scholar
    316% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    David A. Wagner and Paolo Soto:
    Mimicry attacks on host-based intrusion detection systems.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2002
    1118 cites at Google Scholar
    316% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2001 ⌄

  1. 1
    David Moore, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage:
    Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2001
    2246 cites at Google Scholar
    1005% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Bruno Blanchet:
    An Efficient Cryptographic Protocol Verifier Based on Prolog Rules.
    IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2001
    1571 cites at Google Scholar
    673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Ross J. Anderson:
    Why Information Security is Hard-An Economic Perspective.
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2001
    1350 cites at Google Scholar
    564% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Alfonso Valdes and Keith Skinner:
    Probabilistic Alert Correlation.
    International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2001
    1161 cites at Google Scholar
    471% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    David A. Wagner and Drew Dean:
    Intrusion Detection via Static Analysis.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2001
    1094 cites at Google Scholar
    438% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Phillip Rogaway, Mihir Bellare, John Black, and Ted Krovetz:
    OCB: a block-cipher mode of operation for efficient authenticated encryption.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2001
    1056 cites at Google Scholar
    420% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Hervé Debar and Andreas Wespi:
    Aggregation and Correlation of Intrusion-Detection Alerts.
    International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2001
    1022 cites at Google Scholar
    403% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Niels Provos:
    Defending Against Statistical Steganalysis.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2001
    1003 cites at Google Scholar
    393% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Adrian Perrig, Ran Canetti, Dawn Xiaodong Song, and J. D. Tygar:
    Efficient and Secure Source Authentication for Multicast.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2001
    989 cites at Google Scholar
    387% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Wenke Lee and Dong Xiang:
    Information-Theoretic Measures for Anomaly Detection.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2001
    952 cites at Google Scholar
    368% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI

Top-cited papers from 2000 ⌄

  1. 1
    Dawn Xiaodong Song, David A. Wagner, and Adrian Perrig:
    Practical Techniques for Searches on Encrypted Data.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2000
    5458 cites at Google Scholar
    2912% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    Richard Lippmann, Joshua W. Haines, David J. Fried, Jonathan Korba, and Kumar Das:
    Analysis and Results of the 1999 DARPA Off-Line Intrusion Detection Evaluation.
    International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2000
    1528 cites at Google Scholar
    743% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Adrian Perrig, Ran Canetti, J. D. Tygar, and Dawn Xiaodong Song:
    Efficient Authentication and Signing of Multicast Streams over Lossy Channels.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2000
    1480 cites at Google Scholar
    717% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    Rachna Dhamija and Adrian Perrig:
    Deja Vu-A User Study: Using Images for Authentication.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2000
    1383 cites at Google Scholar
    663% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    David A. Wagner, Jeffrey S. Foster, Eric A. Brewer, and Alexander Aiken:
    A First Step Towards Automated Detection of Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2000
    1097 cites at Google Scholar
    505% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Sotiris Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Steven M. Bellovin, and Jonathan M. Smith:
    Implementing a distributed firewall.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2000
    1039 cites at Google Scholar
    473% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Hugo Krawczyk and Tal Rabin:
    Chameleon Signatures.
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2000
    992 cites at Google Scholar
    447% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    Yongdae Kim, Adrian Perrig, and Gene Tsudik:
    Simple and fault-tolerant key agreement for dynamic collaborative groups.
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2000
    748 cites at Google Scholar
    313% above average of year
    Visited: Jul-2025
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Robert Stone:
    CenterTrack: An IP Overlay Network for Tracking DoS Floods.
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2000
    744 cites at Google Scholar
    311% above average of year
    Visited: May-2025
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    Ronald W. Ritchey and Paul Ammann:
    Using Model Checking to Analyze Network Vulnerabilities.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2000
    705 cites at Google Scholar
    289% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2025
    Paper: DOI