"Improving Cybersecurity: New Ways to Protect Data"

Nektarios Tsoutsos, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware, is developing new methods to protect data when cloud services are compromised. With support from the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Tsoutsos will develop advanced cryptographic algorithms and programming strategies to protect user information for various applications. Tsoutsos and his lab will accelerate end-to-end encryption algorithm development to be simpler, usable, and easily integrated into existing computer programming paradigms. A part of the CAREER award will be used to advance Tsoutsos' work on homomorphic encryption, which enables end-to-end encryption in a way that allows data to be processed and analyzed without compromising its security. The initial work will focus on encrypted Machine Learning (ML) so that users can securely send their data to the cloud for complex analysis. This article continues to discuss Tsoutsos' work on developing advanced cryptographic algorithms and programming strategies to help safeguard user information.

The University of Delaware reports "Improving Cybersecurity: New Ways to Protect Data"