The Northeastern University Systems Security Lab

We research tools and techniques for making the Internet a safer place.
And, sometimes, we even discover new attacks.

News and Press

3 November 2025

Anthony just presented a paper at RAID 2025 in Australia.

24 May 2025

Tommaso presented a paper at IEEE SP in SF, CA.

17 March 2025

Cyber Security Intelligence wrote an article static defenses to dynamic defenses and quoted Engin.

Research

Our lab has a focus on practical security research, and we are active in a number of areas spanning systems and network security. Some of our particular research interests include mobile security, web security, security applications of program analysis, botnets, and malware. In general, we are interested in all practical security problems.

Publications

We publish in a number of venues, including IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland), ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS. For a full list of our publications, see our publications list.