Industry, academia join hands to solve U.S. most pressing cyber threats
many different aspects of cybersecurity.
Members of the NGCRC will coordinate research projects, share information and best practices, develop curricula, author joint case studies and other publications, and provide a greater number of learning opportunities and applications for students and the defense community overall.
“In this consortium, researchers from Carnegie Mellon CyLab will work side-by-side with Northrop Grumman researchers to address critical real-world challenges by transitioning and further developing CyLab technologies,” said Adrian Perrig, technical director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon.
CyLab is a cross-disciplinary, university-wide research program dedicated to cybersecurity, privacy, and dependability. It involves six colleges, and includes over 50 faculty members and 130 graduate students, as well as numerous partners in industry and government. Several research centers within CyLab also focus on cutting-edge research, including the Trustworthy Computing Center, the Biometrics Center, the Usable Privacy and Security Lab (CUPS), and the Mobility Research Center. In the past decade, CyLab research has contributed to innovations in mobile ad-hoc network security, sensor network security, increased understanding and usability of privacy and security tools and trustworthy computing.
“The MIT CSAIL team approaches the cyber security problem from multiple perspectives — how to design software systems from the ground up to be secure and dependable, how to provide a security audit trail that captures every system event that is related to information security, and how to design new hardware architecture so that it can protect software,” said Victor Zue, director of MIT CSAIL.
MIT’s CSAIL is the university’s largest interdepartmental lab with over 800 members, over 90 Principal Investigator from eight departments, and approximately 450 students. CSAIL’s early innovations include public-key encryption, networks, computer architecture, and the World Wide Web.
“The Cyber Research Consortium is a wonderful, new initiative for CERIAS,” said Gene Spafford, executive director of CERIAS, Purdue University. “For over 15 years, Purdue has been the leading academic group in research and education in information security. Our mission has been to build collaborative relationships with industry, government and other academic entities to advance the state of cybersecurity through basic and applied research while serving as a resource to the global community. We welcome this opportunity for new collaborations and inspirations, and look forward to continuing to innovate at the forefront of information protection and privacy.”
Purdue University’s CERIAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary academic center addressing the issues of information security, assurance, privacy and cyber crime. CERIAS, one of the NSF’s “Original Seven” Centers for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, is multi-disciplinary, involving more than 80 faculty and 100 graduate students from 18 academic departments across eight of Purdue’s colleges. CERIAS serves as an unbiased resource of information to the worldwide community. Purdue is a public, land-grant, university.
Northrop Grumman is a major industry player in all aspects of computer network operations and cyber security, offering customers innovative solutions to help secure the nation’s cyber future. For more about cybersecurity at Northrop Grumman, see company’s Web site.
