| 2025 | PST | Houdini: Benchmarking Container Security Confinement. | Huzaifa Patel, David Barrera, Anil Somayaji |
| 2024 | NSPW | Balancing Security and Longevity: Benefits of Modular IoT Infrastructure. | Maxwell Keleher, David Barrera, Sonia Chiasson |
| 2023 | NSPW | Escaping Vendor Mortality: A New Paradigm for Extending IoT Device Longevity. | Conner Bradley, David Barrera |
| 2020 | ACSAC | SERENIoT: Distributed Network Security Policy Management and Enforcement for Smart Homes. | Corentin Thomasset, David Barrera |
| 2020 | CHI | Understanding Cybersecurity Practices in Emergency Departments. | Elizabeth Stobert, David Barrera, Valrie Homier, Daniel Kollek |
| 2016 | CoNEXT | Source Accountability with Domain-brokered Privacy. | Taeho Lee, Christos Pappas, David Barrera, Pawel Szalachowski, Adrian Perrig |
| 2016 | SOUPS | Picking a (Smart)Lock: Locking Relationships on Mobile Devices. | Elizabeth Stobert, David Barrera |
| 2015 | CCS | HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer. | Chen Chen, Daniele Enrico Asoni, David Barrera, George Danezis, Adrian Perrig |
| 2013 | CCS | Deadbolt: locking down android disk encryption. | Adam Skillen, David Barrera, Paul C. van Oorschot |
| 2012 | ACSAC | ThinAV: truly lightweight mobile cloud-based anti-malware. | Chris Jarabek, David Barrera, John Aycock |
| 2012 | ACSAC | Tapas: design, implementation, and usability evaluation of a password manager. | Daniel McCarney, David Barrera, Jeremy Clark, Sonia Chiasson, Paul C. van Oorschot |
| 2012 | CCS | Understanding and improving app installation security mechanisms through empirical analysis of android. | David Barrera, Jeremy Clark, Daniel McCarney, Paul C. van Oorschot |
| 2011 | FC | Mercury: Recovering Forgotten Passwords Using Personal Devices. | Mohammad Mannan, David Barrera, Carson D. Brown, David Lie, Paul C. van Oorschot |
| 2010 | CCS | A methodology for empirical analysis of permission-based security models and its application to android. | David Barrera, Hilmi Gnes Kayacik, Paul C. van Oorschot, Anil Somayaji |
| 2009 | SEKE | FiGD: An Open Source Intellectual Property Violation Detector. | Carson D. Brown, David Barrera, Dwight Deugo |
| 2009 | VizSec | Security visualization tools and IPv6 addresses. | David Barrera, Paul C. van Oorschot |
| 2008 | ACSAC | Improving Security Visualization with Exposure Map Filtering. | Mansour Alsaleh, David Barrera, Paul C. van Oorschot |