Steven Andrew Hofmeyr

Current Status

Steven Hofmeyr obtained a Ph.D in 1999 from the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico.

Subsequently he founded Sana Security in 2001 to commercialize his research, where he is currently Chief Scientist.

Education

• BSc(Hons) Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1986 to 1990.

• MSc Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1991 to 1993.

• PhD Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 1994 to 1999.

  Visiting scholar, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 to 1997.

  His thesis committee consisted of:

  Stephanie Forrest (UNM)(chair), Dave Ackley (UNM), Barney Maccabe (UNM), Gene Spafford (Purdue), Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratories)

Publications

• Immunology as information processing. S. Forrest and S.A. Hofmeyr. In Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems, edited by L.A. Segel and I. Cohen. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press (In Press). [ Abstract PDF Postscript]

• Architecture for an Artificial Immune System. S. A Hofmeyr and S. Forrest. Evolutionary Computation 7(1):45-68. 2000. [Abstract PDF Postscript]

• An Interpretative Introduction to the Immune System. S. A. Hofmeyr. To Appear in Design Principles for the Immune System and other Distributed Autonomous Systems. Oxford University Press, Eds, I. Cohen and L. Segel. 2000. [Abstract PDF Postscript]

• PhD Dissertation: An Immunological Model of Distributed Detection and its Application to Computer Security. S. A. Hofmeyr. University of New Mexico, 1999. [Abstract PDF Postscript (gzipped)]

• Immunity by Design: An Artificial Immune System. S.A. Hofmeyr and S. Forrest. In Proceedings of 1999 GECCO Conference, 1999. [Abstract Postscript]

• John Holland's Invisible Hand: An Artificial Immune System. S. Forrest and S. A. Hofmeyr. [Abstract Postscript]

• Intrusion Detection using Sequences of System Calls. S. A. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji, and S. Forrest. Journal of Computer Security Vol. 6, 1998. pg 151-180. [Abstract PDF Postscript]

• An Immunological Approach to Distributed Network Intrusion Detection. S. A. Hofmeyr, S. Forrest, and P. D'haeseleer. Paper presented at RAID'98 - First International Workshop on the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium September 1998. [Abstract Slide Presentation]

• Principles of a Computer Immune System A. Somayaji, S. Hofmeyr, and S. Forrest. 1997 New Security Paradigms Workshop, pp75-82, ACM, 1998. [Abstract PDF Postscript]

• Intrusion Detection via System Call Traces. A. P. Kosoresow and S. A. Hofmeyr. IEEE Software, Vol. 14, No. 5, September - October 1997. [Abstract]

• Computer immunology. S. Forrest, S. Hofmeyr, and A. Somayaji. Communications of the ACM , Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 88-96, 1997. [Abstract PDF Postscript]

• A sense of self for Unix processes S. Forrest, S. A. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji, and T. A. Longstaff. In Proceedings of 1996 IEEE Symposium on Computer Security and Privacy, 1996. [Abstract PDF Postscript]

Research

• Immunological approaches to computer security

• Viewing the Immune System from a machine learning perspective

• Genetic algorithms and search algorithms

• Mobile Agents

• Agent-based modeling

• Artificial life