Welcome to Brendan Saltaformaggio's home page. I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. I research in the FRIENDS Lab under the direction of Professor Dongyan Xu. I earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Computer Science from The University of New Orleans in New Orleans, LA (where I was born and raised). For more information about me please see the links at the bottom of this page.

My broad research interest is Information Assurance. Specifically, my work focuses on virtual infrastructure security, digital forensics, and malware analysis.

Recent projects of mine include:

• Virtual Machine Introspection
• Virtual Infrastructure Security Analysis and Exploitation
• Kernel Memory Forensics

B. Saltaformaggio, D. Xu, and X. Zhang, "BusMonitor: A Hypervisor-Based Solution for Memory Bus Covert Channels," In Proc. 6th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec'13), Prague, Czech Republic, 2013. [PDF]

B. Saltaformaggio, "Forensic Carving of Wireless Network Information from the Android Linux Kernel," University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations, ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012, Paper 20, <http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/20>. [PDF]

D. Bilar and B. Saltaformaggio, "Using a Novel Behavioral Stimuli-Response Framework to Defend against Adversarial Cyberspace Participants," In Proc. 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict (ICCC3), Tallinn, Estonia, 2011, pp. 169-184. [PDF]

• Cooking: From my mother's kitchen as a child to my own today, I have always loved to cook. Perhaps it's my New Orleans upbringing. My speciality? Everything from scratch, cooked slow, with all the nasty pork bits and seasoning that only a Cajun would understand. When not researching I am most likely found in the kitchen - drinking wine and preparing a meal.
• Theater: Wherever I am, I will be able to answer the question "where can I see some good live theater?"
• Music: I describe the type of music that I like as "anything with groove." From Jazz to Blues and Punk Rock to Reggae, if you can feel it in your bones then I will be listening.

CV: [PDF]

Linkedin: [Link]