Technologies
Threats, Attacks, Vulnerabilities, and Architectures
Global businesses and nations have shifted the control of essential processes in government, manufacturing, utilities, banking, and communications to networked computers, without adequate concern for security. New threats emerge continually. Cyber attacks can now burst onto an enterprise or nation's networks with little or no warning and spread so fast that many victims never have a chance to receive the alarms. Even when an attack is identified, today's nascent technologies leaves victims without the time, information, or tools needed to respond and protect themselves.
The understanding of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities and their impact on architectures is the very foundation of our research strategy.
SPARTA ISSO explores the characterization, estimation, quantification, and architectural remediation of security threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities.
We place specific emphasis on detection and mitigation of sophisticated cyber threats, enhancement of the security interoperability of new security technologies, and determination of hostile intent.
SPARTA ISSO uses models, taxonomies, patterns, and representational tools (graphs, trees, etc.) to identify and characterize threats and attack mechanisms, and the system, network, and application vulnerabilities by which security objectives are compromised.
We define and develop original architectural strategies and solutions to counter potential security threats, both novel and those resulting from the integration of current technologies. We identify metrics, measurement techniques, and probabilistic techniques by which the effectiveness of specific security solutions and the composition of security solutions may be characterized and differentiated.