Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) The University of Texas at Dallas http://csi.utdallas.edu January 2014 1/29/2014 1
Our History NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Cyber Security Education June 2004 Cyber Security Research Center (CSRC) Established October 4, 2004 NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Cyber Security Research June 2008 Cyber Security Research and Education Center (CySREC) Established September 2010 Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) Established April 1, 2013
Our Faculty Founder Bhavani Thuraisingham, PhD, DEng (U of Wales, U of Bristol - UK) Core Faculty Michael Baron, PhD (U of MD) - Statistical Methods for Security Alain Bensoussan, PhD (University of Paris) - Risk Analysis for Security Nathan Berg, PhD (U of Kansas) - Economics and Security Alvaro Cardenas, PhD (U of MD) - Control Systems Security Yvo Desmedt, PhD (U. Leuven-Belgium) - Cryptography Zygmunt Haas, PhD (Stanford) Wireless Network Security Kevin Hamlen, PhD (Cornell) - Language and Software Security Murat Kantarcioglu, PhD (Purdue) - Data Security and Privacy Latifur Khan, PhD (U of Southern CA) - Big Data Analytics for Security Daniel Krawczyk, PhD (UCLA) - Psychosocial Aspects of Security Zhiqiang Lin, PhD (Purdue) - Systems Security and Forensics Yiorgos Makris, PhD (UC San Diego) - Hardware Security Kamil Sarac, PhD (UC Santa Barbara) - Education, Network Measurements
Our Accomplishments NSA/DHS Center for Excellence in Education (2004) and Research (2008) $22m in research funding and $3m in education funding Prestigious grants and contracts including: Multiple NSF Career, AFOSR YIP, DoD MURI Fellowships and Awards: IEEE, AAAS, IACR Fellowships; IBM Faculty Award, IEEE and ACM Awards e.g., IEEE CS Technical Achievement, IEEE SMC/Homeland Security Technical Achievement, ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award Numerous keynote addresses, top-tier journal and conference publications, open source tools and prototypes, patents Collaborative research with AFRL, Raytheon, Rockwell, IBM (joint projects) Known for Interdisciplinary Research PhD Student placements at IBM TJ Watson, Google Privacy, Microsoft, Amazon, E-Bay, Raytheon, L-3, UCSD Medical School, Vanderbilt Medical School, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cisco, Clemson U,
Our Sponsors
Our Academic Collaborators
Research Thrust 1 Active Malware Defense Sponsors: AFOSR, NSF, NASA, Sandia, ONR Reactively Adaptive Malware and Frankenstein Reverse Engineering for Malware Detection Android Malware Detection Novel Data/Stream Mining Techniques for: Malware detection Insider threat analysis Intrusion detection Host Health Management Risk Analysis for Botnets
Research Thrust 2 Data Security and Privacy Sponsors: AFOSR, NSF, NIH, ARO Privacy Preserving Record Linkage and Mining Adversarial Data Mining Secure Data Provenance Policy and Incentive-based Assured Information Sharing Security and Privacy for Social Networks Inference Control Risk-aware Data Security and Privacy
Research Thrust 3 Secure Cloud Computing Sponsors: AFOSR, VMware Virtual Machine Introspection and VM Space Traveler Secure Virtualization Hybrid Cloud Security Secure Cloud Data Storage Secure Cloud Query Processing Cloud-based Assured Information Sharing Cloud-based Malware Detection Cloud Forensics
Research Thrust 4 Systems/Language/Networks/Hardware Security Sponsors: AFOSR, NSF, ARO, DARPA, CISCO Safe Re-use Oriented Reverse Engineering Binary Code Analysis In-Line Reference Monitor Hardware Trojan Detection Network Measurements Control Systems Security Cryptographic Techniques
Research Thrust 5 Data/Security Analytics Sponsors: IARPA, Raytheon, Tektronix, Nokia, NASA, NGA, AFOSR, MITRE Semantic Web Data Management and Integration Geospatial Data Management and Integration Stream-based Novel Class Detection for Text Social Network Data Analytics Multimedia Data Management and Mining
Education Thrust Sponsors: NSF, DoD NSF SFS Scholarship for Service DoD IA Scholarship NSF Assured Cloud Computing Degrees and Certificates Courses Offered Computer/Information Security, Network Security, Data and Applications Security, Digital Forensics, Cryptography, Data Privacy, Secure Web Services, Secure Cloud Computing, Hardware Security, CISSP Modules Secure Social Networks, Data Mining for Security, Big Data Analytics, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Biometrics, Security Engineering
Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Tweethood Dr. Latifur Khan Patent pending technology that started with location mining on Tweets and extended to mining several demographic attributes Complete system built around Tweethood Presented to CIA and USAF, and CIA will introduce the technology to IN-Q-TEL VM Space Traveler Dr. Zhiqiang Lin Patent pending technology on virtualization security VMware has expressed interest in licensing; 70K gift from VMware for further development SNOD Stream-based Novel Class Detection Patent-pending technology jointly by Dr. Latifur Khan and Dr. Jiawei Han (UIUC) System being developed around SNOD IBM has expressed interest in licensing
Contact Ms. Rhonda Walls, Project Coordinator rhonda.walls@utdallas.edu, (972) 883-2731 Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founding Executive Director bhavani.thuraisingham@utdallas.edu, (972) 883-4738