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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.

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.

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.

Thirty-eight Lab RATs, weary after 52 hours of hacking competitors' computer networks, posed for a team photograph at the DEF CON Capture the Flag competition held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Wilson Wong

Team from Lincoln Laboratory scores big at international hacking competition

Sep 13

I am continually amazed at how much professional involvement is encouraged. Lincoln Laboratory is very good at supporting people's interests.

Sarah Chmielewski

Computer Scientist

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Cyber System Assessments

Sarah Chmielewski - Computer Scientist

Dec

3 - 4

Cyber Technology for National Security

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

SoK: privacy on mobile devices - it's complicated

Mar 2

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

Repeatable reverse engineering for the greater good with PANDA

May 16

37th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, 16 May 2015.

Automated assessment of secure search systems

Jan 20

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, 20 January 2015, pp. 22-30.

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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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