The National Security Agency Research Directorate began funding foundational research at Lablet institutions beginning in 2012 through the Science of Security (SoS) Initiative. The Lablets were funded in order to promote foundational cybersecurity science that is needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and to underpin advances in cyberdefense. In 2014, the SURE project was founded to investigate cybersecurity in the cyber-physical systems realm. The Lablet and SURE projects are listed below.
| Project Title | Lead PI | Project Abstract | All terms |
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| Principles of Secure BootStrapping for IoT | Ninghui Li | This project seeks to aid developers in designing and implementing protocols for establishing mutual trust between users, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and their intended environment through identifying principles of secure bootstrapping, including... | Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration, NCSU, Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration, Principles of Secure BootStrapping for IoT | Jan 30 2020 - 12:20pm |
| Predicting the Difficulty of Compromise through How Attackers Discover Vulnerabilities | Andy Meneely | The goal of this project is to aid security engineers in predicting the difficulty of system compromises through the development and evaluation of attack surface measurement techniques based upon attacker-centric vulnerability discovery processes. | Security Metrics Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, and Deployment, Metrics, NCSU, Predicting the Difficulty of Compromise through How Attackers Discover Vulnerabilities | Jan 30 2020 - 12:20pm |
| Secure Native Binary Execution | Prasad Kulkarni | Typically, securing software is the responsibility of the software developer. The customer or end-user of the software does not control or direct the steps taken by the developer to employ best practice coding styles or mechanisms to ensure software... | KU, Secure Native Binary Execution | Jan 30 2020 - 11:48am |
| Mixed Initiative and Collaborative Learning in Adversarial Environments | Claire Tomlin | Human Behavior, Resilient Architectures, Scalability and Composability, Understanding and Accounting for Human Behavior, Mixed Initiative and Collaborative Learning in Adversarial Environments, Resilient Architectures, Scalability and Composability, Vanderbilt, Science of Security, Foundations | Jan 30 2020 - 11:47am | |
| Multi-model Test Bed for the Simulation-based Evaluation of Resilience | Peter Volgyesi | We have developed the SURE platform, a modeling and simulation integration testbed for evaluation of resilience for complex CPS [1]. Our previous efforts resulted in a web-based collaborative design environment for attack-defense scenarios supported by a... | Security Metrics Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, and Deployment, Metrics, Multi-model Test Bed for the Simulation-based Evaluation of Resilience, Vanderbilt | Jan 30 2020 - 11:45am |
| Foundations for Cyber-Physical System Resilience | Xenofon Koutsoukos | The goals of this project are to develop the principles and methods for designing and analyzing resilient CPS architectures that deliver required service in the face of compromised components. A fundamental challenge is to understand the basic tenets of... | Foundations of a CPS Resilience, Resilient Architectures, Vanderbilt | Jan 30 2020 - 11:45am |
| Coordinated Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability & Security Patching for Resilient Virtual Computing Infrastructure | Xiaohui (Helen) Gu | This research aims at aiding administrators of virtualized computing infrastructures in making services more resilient to security attacks through applying machine learning to reduce both security and functionality risks in software patching by... | Resilient Architectures, NCSU | Jan 29 2020 - 4:44pm |