

Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology
The U.S. government faces serious threats from sophisticated cyber adversaries who seek to access and disrupt systems and missions. We improve the security of these government systems through the development and deployment of innovative cybersecurity solutions. In particular, our group develops quantitative threat models to inform our cyber systems analyses and prototypes cyber defense techniques. We employ novel analytics to help us discover and characterize cyber threats. Our researchers have developed scalable cyber decision support tools that are used by the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.
Featured Projects

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.

CHARIOT
Using CHARIOT software, cybersecurity analysts can quickly filter online data to discover conversations that hint at cyber threat
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Featured Publications
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.
The leakage-resilience dilemma
Sep 15
Proc. European Symp. on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2019, pp. 87-106.
Artificial intelligence: short history, present developments, and future outlook, final report
Jan 1
MIT LL Final Report
Our Staff
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