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Analysts use the Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT) to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber defense techniques.

Cyber System Assessments

Our team discovers novel vulnerabilities in systems ranging from computers and cellphones to cars and jet fighters. In order to improve the defenses of systems, we use reverse engineering to find ways to maintain control over hardware and software. We coordinate with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community to evaluate cyber defense systems and enable effective cyber operations.

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

cyber security

Large-scale Automated Vulnerability Addition

Computer scientists can test techniques for finding vulnerabilities in code.

PANDA's replay log files are compact and shareable, allowing for repeatable experiments. For example, a nine billion instruction set is represented by only a few hundred megabytes.

cyber security

PANDA – Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis

An open source platform helps analysts quickly reverse engineer large, real-world binary systems to better analyze how software executes.

A researcher stands and points to screen showing her research poster. She is talking about the research with two people looking at the screen.

Cyber technologists talk national security

Aug 5

This is a photo of a CubeSatpayload application of the TBIRD technology.

Awards

Lincoln Laboratory technologies named 2020 R&D 100 Award winners

Oct 13

An illustration of 4 people near eachother looking at their phones, with bluetooth signals emanating from the phones.

In the Media

Bluetooth signals from your smartphone could automate Covid-19 contact tracing while preserving privacy

Apr 9

MIT News

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

Jan 1

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Report

Mission assurance: beyond secure processing

Jul 16

18th IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, QRS 2018, 16-20 July 2018, pp. 593-8.

SoK: privacy on mobile devices - it's complicated

Mar 2

Proc. on Privacy Enhancing Techn., Vol. 3, 2016, pp. 96-116.

More Publications

View the biographies of members of the Cyber System Assessments Group.

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Staff can use a private wireless network to research mobile device technology in the Mobile Device Lab.

Mobile Device Lab

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