Academic and Applied Research for Cybersecurity Challenges
Georgia Tech is at the forefront of creating the next, new cybersecurity solutions with immediate application in the real world -- working to strengthen national defense, ensure economic continuity, and protect individual freedom. Our aim is to anticipate, overcome and continually resist emerging cyberthreats through expert insight, innovative breakthroughs, and cutting-edge curriculum.
Policy
How should the private sector use personal data? Should the government be able to access communication in transit or at rest?
Consumer-Facing Privacy
How can consumers securely interact with technology? What are the best practices?
Attribution
How can we definitively know who is responsible for a cyber breach? What can be done when we cannot attribute the breach?
Trust
How should people, machines, and networks establish trust in reliable ways? How does the trust relationship change over time?
Cyber Physical Systems
What inputs and outputs should be part of the most fortified embedded and physical systems?
Current Research Activity
A sampling of projects underway now is listed below. Cybersecurity research at Georgia Tech spans 11 labs and centers devoted to academic, applied, and classified work for military, government and private industry. More than $100 million of cybersecurity research was performed in FY17.
To inquire about these projects, contact the Principal Investigator.
To initiate a new, cybersecurity research project with Georgia Tech, contact:
- Stephen Moulton (government business)
- Gloria Griessman (industry engagement)
Pen Testing
Embedasploit: A "Pen-Test In a Box" for Industrial Control Systems
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Funded: $1.2 M
End Date: Apr. 2018
Intl' Data Policy
Cross-Border Requests for Data Project
Principal Investigator: Peter Swire
Co-PIs: multiple
Funded: $400 K
End Date: --
Big Data Privacy
Sharesafe: A Framework for Researchers and Data Owners
Principal Investigator: Raheem Beyah
Funded: $500 K
End Date: Aug. 2018
Attack Tolerance
BFT++: Attack Tolerance in Hard Real-Time Systems
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Co-PIs: W. Lee, T. Wang
Funded: $1.2 M
End Date: Mar. 2018
Gate Arrays
Self-Reliant Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Principal Investigator: William Harris
Co-PIs: H. Esmaeilzadeh
Funded: $237 K
End Date: Aug. 2017
DDoS Attack Mitigation
ROKI: Resource-Oriented Computation for Low-Volume DDoS Attacks
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Co-PIs: W. Lee, W. Harris
Funded: $2.6 M
End Date: Apr. 2019
Threat Attribution
Rhamnousia: Attributing Cyber Actors Through Tensor Decomposition and Novel Data Acquisition
Principal Investigator: Manos Antonakakis
Co-PIs: M. Farrell, M. Ahamad, R. Beyah, D. Blough, D. Dagon
Funded: $17.3 M
End Date: May 2021
Information Assurance
THEIA: Tagging and Tracking of Multi-level Host Events for Transparent Computing and Information Assurance
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Co-PIs: T. Kim, A. Orso
Funded: $4.3 M
End Date: Jun. 2019
Side-Channel Attacks
CAMELIA: Computational Activity Monitoring by Externally Leveraging Involuntary Analog Signals
Principal Investigator: Alenka Zajic
Co-PIs: A. Orso, M. Prvulovic
Funded: $9.4 M
End Date: May 2020
Side-Channel Attacks
Quantitative Analysis and Reporting of Electromagnetic Covert and Side-Channel Vulnerabilities
Principal Investigator: Alenka Zajic
Co-PI: M. Prvulovic
Funded: $500 K
End Date: Sept. 2017
System Profiling
Spectral Profiling: Understanding Software Performance without Code Instrumentation
Principal Investigator: Alessandro Orso
Co-PIs: M. Prvulovic, A. Zajic
Funded: $850 K
End Date: Jun. 2019
Machine Learning + Cyber
Intel Science & Technology Center for Adversary-Resilient Security Analytics
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Co-PIs: P. Chau, T. Kim, , L. Song
Funded: $1.5 M
End Date: --
RPK Infrastructure
Moving RPKI-based Route Security to Production
Principal Investigator: Russell Clark
Co-PIs: Ron Hutchins, Matthew Warrens
Funded: $300 K
End Date: Aug. 2017
Sensor Systems
Multi-Hazard Management Through Multi-Source Integration of Physical & Social Sensors
Principal Investigator: Calton Pu
Funded: $300 K
End Date: Jan. 2018
Privacy in the Cloud
Privacy Preserving Computation in Big Data Clouds
Principal Investigator: Ling Liu
Co-PI: Calton Pu
Funded: $1.2 M
End Date: Apr. 2020
Search Rank Fraud
Cracking Down Online Deception Ecosystems
Principal Investigator: Polo Chau
Funded: $260 K
End Date: Aug. 2019
Prevention
An Early Warning System Against Cyber Attacks
Principal Investigator: Manos Antonakakis
Funded: $300 K
End Date: Aug. 2017
Interdomain Modeling
Economics of Contractual Arrangements for Internet Interconnections
Principal Investigator: Constantine Dovrolis
Funded: $400 K
End Date: Sept. 2019
Big Data Mining
Human-Computer Graph Exploration and Tele-Discovery
Principal Investigator: Polo Chau
Funded: $600 K
End Date: Jul. 2020
Searchable encryption
New Advances for Efficiently Searchable Encryption
Principal Investigator: Sasha Boldyreva
Funded: $500 K
End Date: Jul. 2017
Network Protocol Analysis
A Unifying Framework for Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
Principal Investigator: Sasha Boldyreva
Funded: $280 K
End Date: Jul. 2017
Smart Cities
Adaptive Management and Use of Resilient Infrastructure in Smart Cities
Principal Investigator: Calton Pu
Funded: $375 K
End Date: Aug. 2018
Analysis & Modeling
12P Security Analysis & Modeling
Principal Investigator: Manos Antonakakis
Funded: $70 K
End Date: Sept. 2017
Botnets
Standardizing Botnet Enumeration
Principal Investigator: Manos Antonakakis
Funded: $455 K
End Date: Mar. 2018
Funding for these projects and others is made possible by Air Force Research Labs, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Florida International University, Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, NCR Corp., Southern Light Rail, Inc., University of Washington, and more.
