Technologies
Wireless Intrusion Protection
Wireless systems are rapidly proliferating in the marketplace. Military communication systems that have typically employed military or service specific technologies are now turning to exploit commercial wireless technology and techniques. While wireless networks have seen widespread adoption in the home user markets, widely reported and easily exploited holes in the standard security system have stunted wireless' deployment rate in enterprise environments. While many users in the marketplace know exactly what the weaknesses are, most have accepted the prevailing wisdom that wireless networks are inherently insecure and nothing can be done about it. To enable solutions to this situation, SPARTA ISSO focuses on wireless networking security in enterprise environments.
Wireless local area networks exist in either infrastructure or ad hoc mode. Ad hoc networks have multiple wireless clients talking to each other as peers to share data among themselves without the aid of a central Access Point. An infrastructure WLAN consists of several clients talking to a central device called an Access Point (AP), which is usually connected to a wired network like the Internet or a corporate or home LAN. To focus on enterprise requirements, we focus research on implementation mechanisms supporting security in infrastructure mode. To focus on military requirements, and emerging 4G networking strategies, we focus on fundamental research, development, prototype development and technology transfer for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).
SPARTA ISSO analyzes and studies security issues in emerging wireless protocols, and proposes and develops solutions for the issues they uncover. Existing and emerging wireless protocols are frequently developed with little or no security, or even worse, broken security.
We look at the IEEE 802.11 standard and work to improve the security and deployment of wireless local area networks.
SPARTA ISSO specializes in the application of cryptographic technologies to security issues in wireless protocols at the physical and link level, especially in ad hoc, low energy, and low bandwidth environments.
We develop new, efficient key management approaches for distributed ground sensors and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). We also integrate security into MANETs to safeguard automated configuration and routing protocols from an outside attack.