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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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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.

cryptography

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.

My mentor was always open to any research ideas that I had and allowed me to explore those ideas, which ultimately gave me confidence in myself as a researcher.

Shamaria Engram

Cybersecurity Intern

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Secure Resilient Systems and Technology

Shamaria Engram

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

Oct

20 - 22

Human Language Technology and Applications Workshop 2020

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, 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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Automated discovery of cross-plane event-based vulnerabilities in software-defined networking

Feb 23

Network and Distributed Systems Security Symp., NDSS, 23-26 February 2020.

FirmFuzz: automated IOT firmware introspection and analysis

Nov 15

2nd Workshop on the Internet of Things Security and Privacy, IoT S&P '19, 15 November 2019.

Security Design of Mission-Critical Embedded Systems

Sep 24

HPEC 2019: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 22-24 September 2019.

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