Finished Projects
Secure Execution Environments
Generic Software Wrappers Current Status
The Generic Software Wrappers for Security and Reliability contract has ended. . Research and development are continuing under a new contract, Enterprise Wrappers for Information Assurance.
Our research and prototype implementation demonstrate the ease with which an abstract event inteception mechanism, including an object-oriented lifecycle and in-kernel, memory-resident database for information collection and sharing, implemented using loadable kernel modules, can add useful security mechanisms and policies in COTS environments. In addition to the basic intereception mechanisms, we have implemented, studdied, and reported on wrappers that implement access control, new functionality for legacy programs (e.g., encryption), and several intrusion detection techniques.