Dr. Kun Sun is an assistant professor in College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. His research focuses on systems and network security. Dr. Sun has more than 10 years working experience in both industry and academia. Before joining CWM, he was a Research Professor in George Mason University. Before that, he was a Senior Research Scientist in Intelligent Automation Inc. He was a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technology in 2000. Dr. Sun is the director of Sun Security Laboratory (SSL), which is continuously hiring self-motivated Ph.D. and master students who have research interests on information security, operating system, and computer networks. Send me your CV.

• [S&P16] One conference paper titled "CaSE: Cache-Assisted Secure Execution on ARM Processors" being accepted by IEEE S&P 2016. Congratulations to Ning Zhang.
• [AsiaCCS16] One conference paper titled "Privacy Breach by Exploiting postMessage in HTML5: Identification, Evaluation, and Countermeasure" being accepted by AsiaCCS 2016. Congratulations to Chong Guan.
• [Infocom16] One conference paper titled "A Study of Personal Information in Human-chosen Passwords and Its Security Implications" being accepted by Infocom2016. Congratulations to Yue Li.
• [Infocom16] One conference paper titled "DESIR: Decoy-Enhanced Seamless IP Randomization" being accepted by Infocom2016. Congratulations to Jianhua Sun.
• One research gift of $100K awarded by Cisco Systems Inc.
• [EuroS&P16] One conference paper titled "CacheKit: Evading Memory Introspection Using Cache Incoherence"" being accepted by EuroS&P 2016. Congratulations to Ning Zhang.

Sun Security Lab's Seminar 2016

• Moving Taget Defense/Adaptive Cyber Defense: Against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack.  -- SunTzu
• System security: trustworthy computing environments
• Mobile security: resource isolation and access control
• Password Security: password measurement and enforcement

Postdoctoral

• Lingguang Lei, Postdoctoral

Ph.D. students

• Yue Li (Co-advised with Prof. Haining Wang)
• Jianhua Sun
• Kyle Wallace (Co-advised with Prof. Gang Zhou)
• Shengye Wan
• Chong Guan (visiting student from CAS IIE)
• Ning Zhang (Virginia Tech student mentored by me)

Master students

• Bennett Summers
• Eunyoung Cho

• CSCI 454/554 Computer and Network Security (Spring 2015) (Spring 2016)
• CSCI 680 Advanced System and Network Security (Fall 2015)
• CSCI 780 Advanced Network Security (Fall 2014)

• TPC Member: INFOCOM 2016, SecureComm 2016, MTD 2015, IPCCC 2015, CCS 2015, MTD 2015, ICCCN 2015/2016, ICC 2015/2016, CCNC 2015, AsiaCCS-SCC 2014, CNS 2014.
• TPC Co-Chair: First ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014), in conjunction with ACM CCS 2014.
• Journal Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN).

• [S&P16] Ning Zhang, Kun Sun, Wenjing Lou, and Tom Hou. "CaSE: Cache-Assisted Secure Execution on ARM Processors." To appear in the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), SAN JOSE, CA, MAY 23-25, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 13.75%=55/400)
• [AsiaCCS16] Chong Guan, Kun Sun, Zhan Wang and Wen Tao Zhu. "Privacy Breach by Exploiting postMessage in HTML5: Identification, Evaluation, and Countermeasure." To appear in the 11th ACM Symposium on Information, Compute rand Communications Security (ASIACCS), Xi'an, China, May 30 - June 3, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 20.9%=73/350 (full paper))
• [Infocom16] Yue Li, Haining Wang, and Kun Sun. "A Study of Personal Information in Human-chosen Passwords and Its Security Implications." To appear in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, April 10-15, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 18.25%=300/1,644)
• [Infocom16] Jianhua Sun and Kun Sun. "DESIR: Decoy-Enhanced Seamless IP Randomization." To appear in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, April 10-15, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 18.25%=300/1,644)
• [EuroS&P16] Ning Zhang, He Sun, Kun Sun, Wenjing Lou, and Thomas Hou. "CacheKit: Evading Memory Introspection Using Cache Incoherence". To appear in the 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Saarbrücken, GERMANY, on March 21-24, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 17.26%=29/168)
• [TIFS] He Sun, Kun Sun, Yuewu Wang, and Jiwu Jing. "Reliable and Trustworthy Memory Acquisition on Smartphones". In Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on (TIFS), vol.10, no.12, pp.2547-2561, Dec. 2015.
• [GameSec15] Andrew Clark, Kun Sun, Linda Bushnell, and Radha Poovendran. "A Game-Theoretic Approach to IP Address Randomization in Decoy-Based Cyber Defense". To appear in the Sixth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), London, UK, on November 4-5, 2015.
• [CCS16] He Sun, Kun Sun, Yuewu Wang, and Jiwu Jing. "TrustOTP: Transforming Smartphones into Secure One-Time Password Tokens". To appear in the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Denver, Colorado, October 12-16, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 19.81%=128/646)
• [SRDS15] Xing Gao, Dachuan Liu, Haining Wang, and Kun Sun. "PmDroid: Permission Supervision for Android Advertising". To appear in the 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Montreal, Canada, September 28 - October 01, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 29.63%=24/81 (regular papers))
• [DSN15] He Sun, Kun Sun, Yuewu Wang, Jiwu Jing, and Haining Wang. "TrustICE: Hardware-assisted Isolated Computing Environments on Mobile Devices". To appear in the 45th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22-25, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 21.83%=50/229)
• [S&P15] Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang, and Kun Sun. "Using Hardware Features for Increased Debugging Transparency". To appear in the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Fairmont, San Jose, CA, May 18-20, 2015. (Acceptance ratio:13.51%=55/407)
  
• [AsiaCCS15] Ning Zhang, Kun Sun, Wenjing Lou, Y. Thomas Hou, and Sushil Jajodia. "Now You See Me: Hide and Seek in Physical Address Space". To appear in the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Singapore, April 14-17, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 17.84%=48/269 (full paper))
• [NDSS15] Xueqiang Wang, Kun Sun, Yuewu Wang, and Jiwu Jing. "DeepDroid: Dynamically Enforcing Enterprise Policy on Android Devices", In the Proceedings of 2015 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 8-11, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 16.88%=51/302)