Research Interests

• Container Security, Security measurement and quantification, eBPF-based container monitoring

• System Security, System call filtering mechanism, Linux Security Module

• Exploit Code Analysis, Static/Dynamic/Hybrid Analysis

• Deep Learning

Education

• 2020.09-2022.08 M.S. in Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  • M.S. Thesis - Research on System Call Filtering Technique for Defense against Host Kernel Exploits in Container Environment

  • Cloud System with Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab (CLEAN)

  • Advisor: Byungchul Tak

• 2016.03-2020.08 B.S. in Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Employment

• 2023.Dec-present, Researcher at Hyundai Motors

• 2023.May-Oct, Software Engineer at CISCO Research, San Jose, CA, USA

• 2023.Feb-May, Researcher at Software Technology Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Publications

• Quantitative Analysis of Sequence-based Container Security Enhancement using System Call Sequence Extraction Framework
  Somin Song, Youyang Kim, and Byungchul Tak
  Journal of KIISE (JOK): Computer Systems and Theory, Vol 50, No 11, pp 913-923, Nov 2023.

• On the Value of Sequence-based System Call Filtering for Container Security
  Somin Song, Sahil Suneja, Michael Le, and Byungchul Tak
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing 2023 (CLOUD'23, BK IF=1)

• Sequence-based System Call Filtering the Enhanced Container Security, is it beneficial? (Poster)
  Somin Song, Sahil Suneja, Michael Le, and Byungchul Tak
  In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Comping 2023 (CCGrid'23, BK IF-1)
  Best Research Poster Award

• Effectiveness Analysis of System call Sequence-based Container Security Mechanism
  Somin Song, Youyang Kim, and Byungchul Tak
  In Proceedings of the 49th Korean Information Science Society Conference 2022 (KSC'22)
  Outstanding Paper Award
  [pdf]

• Root Cause Categorization Using Online Forum Data and Transformer-based BERT Model
  Youyang Kimg, Somin Song, and Byungchul Tak
  In Proceedings of the Ubiquious Computing and Web Information Technology Conference 2022 (UCWIT'22)
  [pdf]

• SecQuant: Quantifying Container System Call Exposure
  Sunwoo Jang*, Somin Song*, Byungchul Tak, Sahil Suneja, Michael V. Le, Chuan Yue, and Dan Williams (*equally contributed)
  In Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2022 (ESORICS'22, BK IF=2)
  [pdf] [bib]

• A Study on the eBPF-based System Monitoring Applications
  Somin Song
  In Proceedings of the 23rd Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE 2021), Vol23 No.1

Projects

• Research on eBPF-based Container Security Enhancement Technology, with NSR(National Security Research Institue)

  • 2020.04-2020.10 (7 months)

• Analysis of research trend of eBPF-based Linux system monitoring technology

• Analysis of research trends in eBPF-based container monitoring technology

• Design and development of eBPF-based container monitoring module

• Research on BPF-LSM-based Container Platform Security Technology, with NSR(National Security Research Institue)

• 2021.04-2021.10 (7 months)

• Analysis of security technology research trends using the bpf-lsm function of the latest kernel (5.7 or higher)

  • Analysis of bpf-lsm-based container platform security technology trends (eg BPFbox, etc.)

  • Design and development of bpf-lsm-based container platform security module

Awards

• Best Research Poster Award, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2023.

• Outstanding Paper Award, Korean Information Science Society Conference (KSC), 2022.

• Outstanding Presentation, ERC STAAR (Software Disaster Research Center, KNU) Workshop, 2022.

• KNU Thesis Award, Kyungpook National University, School of Computer Science & Engineering, 2022.

Talks

• On the Value of Sequence-based System Call Filtering for Container Security, CLOUD 2023 Cloud Security - II Session, Chicago, IL, USA, July 06, 2023. 

• Sequence-based System Call Filtering the Enhanced Container Security, is it beneficial? (Poster), CCGrid 2023 Poster Session, Bangalore, India, May 03, 2023.

• Effectiveness Anslysis of System call Sequence-based Container Security Mechanism, KSC 2022 Outstanding Paper Session, Jeju, December 23, 2022.

• SecQuant: Quantifying Container System Call Exposure, ESORICS 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 27, 2022.

• Research on System Call Filtering Technique for Defense against Host Kernel Exploits in Container Environment, STAAR Workshop, Jeju, February 13, 2022.