Publications
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES
- Syed Ali Qasim, Wooyeon Jo, Irfan Ahmed, “PREE: Heuristic Builder for Reverse Engineering of Network Protocols in Industrial Control Systems”, In 23rd Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference (DFRWS US’23), July 2023, Baltimore, MD. (BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD) PDF
- Adeen Ayub, Wooyeon Jo, Syed Ali Qasim, Irfan Ahmed, “How Are Industrial Control Systems Insecure by Design? A Deeper Insight Into Real-World Programmable Logic Controllers”, In IEEE Security & Privacy, 2023 PDF
- Syed Ali Qasim, Adeen Ayub, Jordan A Johnson, Irfan Ahmed, “Attacking the IEC-61131 Logic Engine in Programmable Logic Controllers in Industrial Control Systems”, In the 15th IFIP International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICCIP), March 2021, Arlington, Virginia. (held virtually)(CVEs to be assigned) PDF
- Masrik Dahir, Syed Ali Qasim, Irfan Ahmed, “Cronus: An Automated Feedback Tool for Concept Maps”, In IEEE Access Journal, August 2021 PDF
- Syed Ali Qasim, Jared Smith, Irfan Ahmed, “ Control Logic Forensics Framework using Built-in Decompiler of Engineering Software in Industrial Control Systems”, In the 20th Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference (DFRWS’20), July 2020, Memphis, TN. (held virtually) (BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD) PDF
- Syed Ali Qasim, Juan Lopez Jr, Irfan Ahmed, “Automated Reconstruction of Control Logic for Programmable Logic Controller Forensics”, In the 22nd Information Security Conference (ISC’19), September 2019, New York. PDF
- Syed Ali Qasim, Harris Durani, Muhammad Naeem, Waleed Riaz, Suleman Shahid, “Supporting Pakistani Farmers Through Digital Means: An Exploratory Study”, In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’16) PDF
PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS, DEMOS, AND POSTERS
- Syed Ali Qasim, Irfan Ahmed, “A Case Study of Virtual Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) Forensic Framework on Investigating Control Logic Attacks in a Belt Conveyor System”, In the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February 2022, Seattle, Washington. (Extended Abstract)
- Syed Ali Qasim, Irfan Ahmed, “Virtual PLC-assisted Forensic Analysis of Control Logic Injection Attacks”, In the 1st International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure and Manufacturing System Security (CIMSS) in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, Kamakura, Japan, June 2021. (Demo)
