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Safeguarding the Connected World

As our society grows increasingly dependent on electronic networks for managing everyday life, running our economy, and defending the nation, cybersecurity has become one of our most pressing challenges.

Can we protect the power grid, telecommunication networks, financial data, “smart” products, and our private information, while still enjoying the benefits technology affords us?

AAU universities are helping answer that question, leading the way with multidisciplinary research, technology development, and education.

Martin Swany

Researcher Is Detecting Trojan Horses Embedded as Hardware, Firmware

Martin Swany, a professor and chair of the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, answers questions about his work with thermal imaging and electromagnetic probes.
PhD student Jacob Harer (left) and research professor Peter Chin

Could Artificial Intelligence Make Life Harder for Hackers?

Two Boston University computer scientists have developed a tool that could make it harder for hackers to find their way into networks where they don’t belong.
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Stanford Researchers Develop New Data Privacy Technique

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new system for aggregating usage reports from personal devices that emphasizes maintaining the user's privacy.
Mehdi Namazi; PhD student Mael Flament; and Eden Figueroa, PhD.

Quantum Memory Applications Can Help Fight Hackers

A team of researchers at Stony Brook University has developed a technology and prototype device based on quantum mechanics designed to prevent network hacking.

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Life, Enhanced: UW Professors Study Legal, Social Complexities of an Augmented Reality

Those designing coming augmented reality systems should make them adaptable to change, resistant to hacking and responsive to the needs of diverse users, according to a white paper by an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Washington’s Tech Policy Lab.
University of Washington | Protecting Individual Data | Safeguarding the Connected World

Web of Deceit

In an era when it seems every week brings a new story of large-scale hacking and identity theft, you might wonder if we’re all just sitting ducks for bad guys with computers. The answer, say UC Santa Barbara researchers, is a firm maybe.
University of California, Santa Barbara | Protecting Individual Data | Safeguarding the Connected World

Companies Should Rethink Data Collection

The European Court of Justice has struck down the so-called Safe Harbor agreement, which allowed U.S. companies to skirt many European data privacy laws. Computer scientist Anna Lysyanskaya says now is a good time for companies to start using cryptographic methods that enable them to do business without collecting customers’ private information.
Brown University | Protecting Individual Data | Safeguarding the Connected World

New Tool Expands Tracking of Personal Data on the Web

Computer Science Professor Sal Stolfo and his former student Ang Cui, whose cybersecurity research has discovered dozens of serious flaws, have developed Symbiote defense technology that significantly reduces the threat of embedded device malware attacks on end users and organizations.

Columbia University | Protecting Consumer Products | Safeguarding the Connected World

High School Students Decipher Cryptography

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory's LLCipher workshop, students practice critical thinking and learn some cybersecurity basics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Technology Education | Safeguarding the Connected World