ASSERT Center Research

  • Election System Security - Dr. Kara Nance, Dr. Orion Lawlor, and Dr. Brian Hay comprise the core of the technical team for the Alaska Election Security Project, which is currently underway. Dr. Nance and Dr. Hay also served as Senior Investigators for the most recent iteration of the Voting System review for the Florida Department of State.

  • Sensor Web Security (Dr. K. Nance) - Applications of computer security techniques to the sensor web realm.

  • Cascading Failure Modeling in Complex Networks (Dr. D. Newman) - A study of the causes of cascading failures in complex networks, such as power grids and communication networks.

  • Dynamic Honeypot Deployment (Chris Hecker) - An effort to automate the deployment and configuration of honeypots - see the Honeypots page for more details.

  • RUU (Dr. B. Hay) - Integration of keystroke dynamics into the Linux Operating System.

  • Secure DNS and Phishing (Dr. B. Hay) - Methods for preventing phishing attacks using Secure DNS.

  • IA Education Resources (Dr. K. Nance and Dr. B. Hay) - An effort to safely provide remote hands-on IA experience for students, which is particularly relevant to education in rural Alaska.

  • Ethical Information Security in a Cross Cultural Environment (Dr. K. Nance and Dr. M. Strohmaier) - Information security in a global environment.

  • XML Security (Eric Cray) - Applications of Information Security techniques to XML documents.

  • Social Engineering (Dr. M. Strohmaier) - Investigations of applications of classical communication persuasion theory to social engineering incidents.

  • IDACT Security Module (Troy Wu) - The development of a security layer for the IDACT project.

  • ROSP (Ron Robinson) - Rapid Operating System Profiler for Standardized Linux Test Environments.

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