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Cyber Security and Information Sciences - Creating new tools for cyber defense and human language processing

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

We research, develop, evaluate, and deploy tools and systems designed to ensure that national security missions can be accomplished successfully despite cyber attacks. We also develop advanced hardware, software, and algorithms for processing datasets from a range of sources, including speech, imagery, text, and network traffic.

Cyber Security and Information Sciences - Creating new tools for cyber defense and human language processing

Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems
Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology
Cyber System Assessments
Cyber-Physical Systems
Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center
Secure Resilient Systems and Technology

We develop artificial intelligence algorithms, technologies, and systems for extracting information from multimedia data in adverse conditions.

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Awards

Three from MIT are named 2020 Fellows of the IEEE

Jan 7

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Improving resiliency in military systems will require organizational and cultural shifts

Nov 6

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Lincoln Laboratory's new AI supercomputer is the most powerful at a university

Sep 26

Small satellites are an attractive option for missions because of their low costs; however, they are vulnerable to cyberattacks. We provide a securable and usable architecture for keeping small satellites resilient to system compromise.

software

Secure Small Satellite Processing Platform

A secure reference architecture enables satellites to recover from cyberattacks and carry on their missions.

The LAVA system automatically injects bugs into program code so that vulnerability discovery techniques can be tested.

software

Large-scale Automated Vulnerability Addition

Computer scientists can test techniques for finding vulnerabilities in code.

TKM enables seamless over-the-network key distribution to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and authorized terminals. At left, UAV video is accessible to authorized terminals. At right, an operator has modified access during the mission.

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Tactical Key Management

Cryptographic keys can now be created and securely distributed in real time during a mission.

CASCADE software uses complex systems modeling and simulation to explore thousands of adversarial action-reaction logic branches and predict probable outcomes. The software generates cyber solutions optimized for security, cost, and mission performance.

software

Cyber Adversarial Scenario Modeler and Artificial Intelligence Decision Engine (CASCADE)

CASCADE software simulates cyber attacker and defender actions and recommends multiple courses of action to make systems and networks more secure.

To hear [users] say, 'this tool improves my life,' and knowing I impacted someone's work and helped national security…that's a rewarding moment.

Bich Vu

Cybersecurity Researcher

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Secure Resilient Systems and Technology

Bich Vu

I’m doing research and theoretical work that I felt were missing during my industry internships.

Alice Lee

Software Engineer

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Secure Resilient Systems and Technology

Alice Lee

Cybersecurity is a young field, and there are ever-evolving vulnerabilities and new attacks on things we care about, that we need to protect.

Joseph Sobchuk

Cybersecurity Engineer

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Secure Resilient Systems and Technology

Joseph Sobchuk

The researchers here and on campus never cease to impress me with their creativity and ingenuity!

Alexia Schulz

Data Scientist

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Cyber-Physical Systems

Alexia Schulz

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Endicott House, Dedham, MA

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Beaver Works Center

The Fort Meade field office supports research and development of new cyber technologies for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community organizations.

Fort Meade Field Site

The 40,000-core interactive parallel computing system provides high-performance, on-demand computing resources to the Laboratory community.

Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center

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Artificial intelligence: short history, present developments, and future outlook, final report

Jan 1

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Report

Detection and characterization of human trafficking networks using unsupervised scalable text template matching

Dec 10

Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data, 10-13 December 2018, pp. 3111-20.

Classifier performance estimation with unbalanced, partially labeled data

Jan 1

Proc. Machine Learning Research, Vol. 88, 2018, pp. 4-16.

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