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Past Projects

The following tables provide links to all the projects that the Institute has sponsored in its eight-year history, including those on emergency‐response technologies, bio/chem terrorism, law enforcement, and large‐scale cyber exercises.

Chemical and Biological

Project Name	End Date
After-the-fact radiation dosimetry from inanimate objects (EPR)	12/31/06
Enabling Technology for Deployment of Biological Nerve Agent Detoxification Catalysts	07/01/04
Nano-optics for Matched Spectroscopy of Hazardous Materials (NOMS)	02/28/07
Removal of Toxins and Pathogens using Human Monoclonal and Bispecific Antibodies	08/31/05

Computer Network Research

Project Name	End Date
Discovery of Trends in Activity-Aware Computing Environments	12/31/08
Measure, Analyze, Protect: Security Through Measurement for Wireless LANs	06/30/08
Digital Living: Understanding PLACE - Privacy in Location-Aware Computing Environments	12/31/07
Wireless Mobile Networking for Cyberassurance	07/31/03
System Security Evaluation Testbed	06/30/02
Wireless Network Analysis and Protection	06/30/03
System Security Evaluation (Kernel)	08/31/06
System Security Evaluation (Modeling)	08/31/06
Wireless Security for First Responders and Sensor Networks	07/31/04
DIST Visualization Experiments (DIST-Vis)	12/31/01

Cyber Security Exercises

Project Name	End Date
TOPOFF 2 Cybersecurity Exercise	08/31/03
TOPOFF 3 Cybersecurity Exercise	03/31/05
Livewire Cyber Exercise	05/01/04
Network Simulation Software for Cyber Exercises	10/31/04
Network Simulation Software for Cyber Exercises	10/31/05
The Role of Social Networks in Organizational Learning during a Cyber-Crisis: Evidence from the LIVEWIRE Simulation	10/31/05

Cyber Security Research

Project Name	End Date
Secure the Railway IT Infrastructure	03/31/10
MetroSense: Scalable Secure Sensor Systems (4S)	03/31/10
Public-Key Infrastructure Project (PKI)	06/30/09
Information Technology in Healthcare	12/31/08
Understanding and Quantifying the Economic Impact of Security Failures and Defense Strategies	12/07/07
Behavioral Fingerprinting of Wireless Devices	08/31/07
Algorithms for High-Assurance in Cyber-Security	10/30/07
Infrastructure Web	09/30/03
Gigabit Monitoring	09/30/01
Statistically Based Network Intrusion Detection	11/30/01
Data Mining for Detection of Network Intrusions	09/30/03
Jeanne-MRP	12/31/02
Semantic Hacking	09/30/03
Public Key Infrastructure and Trust - Information Security	07/31/05
Anomaly Detection Based on User Mobility Patterns	08/31/06
Cross-layer Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Attacks	08/31/06

Cyber Security Tools

Project Name	End Date
Digital Video Forensics (DVF)	09/30/09
Digital Image Forensics	12/31/07
Monitoring and Diagnosing SCADA Systems	06/05/07
Integrating Self-Awareness and Self-Healing Systems (SASH)	09/30/06
Detection of Digital Tampering	03/31/03
Assessing and Mining of Data from Network Sensors	10/01/03
Security Database with Vulnerability Scanner	01/01/04
ISTS Top Ten Certification Effort	01/01/03
Advanced Packet Vault	03/31/02
Steganography	03/31/02
Immunological Approaches to Intrusion, Detection and Response	10/31/03
Techniques for Modeling and Visualizing Internet Attacks	10/31/03
Shadow Intrusion and Network Analysis	12/01/03
User Mode Linux (UML) / Honeynet	12/01/03
Internet Health Monitoring System and Data Archive	06/30/01
BGP Archive and Analysis	06/30/01
Detection of Tampering with Computer Executables	04/30/04
Digital Evidence Retrieval	04/30/04
Windows 2000 Forensics	12/31/01
High Speed Network Monitoring and Analysis Technology	06/01/02
Recovery of Information from Erased Magnetic Medium	01/31/02
Software System Protection	03/31/03
COTS Evaluation and Certification Effort	12/31/03
Network and Computer Forensics	12/31/03
Distributed Intrusion Detection and Correlation	09/30/03
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Unreachable Message Metering	09/30/03
Network Risk Analysis (Q-RAN)	09/30/03
Transparent IDS Bridge	01/01/04
Digital Tampering & Secrets	08/31/06
The Kerf Toolkit for Instrusion Analysis	08/31/06
Analysis of the Data-Collection Capabilities of a Large-Scale, Distributed HoneyPot	08/31/06
Process Query Systems for Homeland Security	08/31/06

Cyber Trust Research

Project Name	End Date
Business Rationale for Cyber Security	07/31/09
Human Behavior, Insider Threat and Awareness	07/31/09
Security Incentives through Risk Pricing	03/31/09
Technology for Trust	01/22/08
Project 1: Understanding the Role of Trust in Internet Exchange
Project 2: Enhancing Trust Through Information Sharing in the Extended Enterprise (EnTISE)
Project 3: Extensions to Automated Trust Negotiation
Project 4: Tiny Trusted Third Parties (T3P)
Project 5: Usable High-Assurance Operating Systems
Project 6: Communicating Trust Assertions (Greenpass)
Secure Digital Medium	06/30/04
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) for Infosecurity	08/31/06
Trustworthy Negotiation	06/15/06

Education and Preparedness

Project Name	End Date
Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training (SISMAT)	09/30/10
Business Education for the Security Professional (BESP)	05/16/08
Japanese Cybersecurity Training	03/31/05
Interactive Virtual Socratic Dialogue – Cyberterrorism: Regional and Local Response	12/31/02
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)	12/31/03
Virtual Terrorism Response Academy - Interactive Media Laboratory (IML)	12/31/05
InterAgency Board (IAB) Interoperability Sub-group Meeting	02/28/06

Emerging Threats

Project Name	End Date
Emergent Threat Assessment	02/28/01
Emerging Technology Conference - Neuroscience	07/01/02

First Responder Technologies

Project Name	End Date
Reconfigurable Wireless Sensor Webs	04/30/04
ICMS (Incident Command Management Software) Test Bed, Technical Rational and Approach	06/30/02
Crisis Information Management Software (CIMS): Assessing the Status of Interoperability Solutions for Crisis Information Management Systems	10/31/04
An Integrated Approach to Communications, Automated Information Management, and Sensing for emergency and disaster response	08/31/06
Synthetic Environment for Emergency Response Simulation	05/01/06

Law Enforcement Resources

Project Name	End Date
E-Commerce Security Resource	04/30/03
Daily Intelligence Briefing	12/31/03
Wish List/Watch List	10/31/03
Security Informant	12/01/03
Law Enforcement Cybercrime/Terrorism Website	12/31/03
Law Enforcement Educational Training	12/31/03
Financial Forum	10/31/04
Analysis of the Jurisdictional Thresholds for Prosecuting Cyber Crimes in the United States at the State Level	10/31/04
Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: A National Needs Assessment	10/31/04
Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: Gap Analysis Report	10/31/04
Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: National Research and Development Agenda	10/31/04
Prototype National Contact Index for Cyber Attack Investigators	10/31/04
TAG Cybercrime Summit	10/31/04

Technical Analysis and Policy

Project Name	End Date
E-Security Framework for World Bank
Effects Based Operations for Information Assurance	03/31/03
Network and Computer Forensics	09/30/01
Compendium of Recent Counter-Terrorism Recommendations	09/16/01
Cyber Attacks During the War on Terrorism: A Predictive Analysis	09/22/01
Internet and Infrastructure Protection	12/31/02
Cyber Warfare: An Analysis of the Means and Motivations of Selected Nation States	10/31/04
Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups	10/31/04