Cyber Security and INFORMATION SCIENCES
Future Outlook
- Lincoln Laboratory will continue to architect and analyze DoD mission-critical systems to ensure that these systems will be effective in a contested cyber domain. Over time, this cyber architecture and analysis work should extend to support all or most of the Laboratory’s mission areas.
- Human language technology work will include the synthesis of algorithms to develop advanced content-based analytics, including target discovery, knowledge-base population, intent recognition, and crossmedia knowledge discovery.
- Over the next year, the Laboratory will validate the metrics developed to assess the security posture of government enterprise-class networks. The long-term goal is to have these quantitative and threat-relevant metrics replace the checklist-based and threat-independent metrics used in current assessments.
- Technologies being developed under DARPA’s Clean-slate Design of Resilient Adaptive Secure Hosts (CRASH) program will be integrated into one or more prototypes that can be evaluated as whole systems. These evaluations will help DARPA demonstrate the progress being made under this program that is investigating new techniques for securing computer components and systems.
- Developing cyber situational awareness technology for use at the enterprise, mission, and national levels.
- Providing high quality assessments of cyber systems and capabilities through analysis, modeling and simulation, and cyber range experimentation.
- Developing and deploying cutting-edge technologies to create and support high-fidelity cyber experiments.
- Advancing malicious-software analysis, triaging, and categorization capabilities.
RF signals collected during field tests were used to assess potential cyber vulnerabilities.
The Laboratory will continue work on the following initiatives: