CyLab Success Stories

Research at CyLab seeks to push beyond existing concepts, knowledge and methods, to deliver new tools and technologies that benefit digital society.  Here are just a few of the success stories at CyLab.

CyLab Biometrics CenterBiometrics logo
Integrating cyber-methods into systems that help surveil and protect is the next generation of biometric research.

CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS)CUPS logo
Usability is the latest field of research in protecting users from scams, phishing and identity theft.

Iris & Face Recognition Research
Improving device capacity and developing new algorithms signficantly expand the accuracy of biometric defense.

Message in a Bottle
Research in protecting encyrption keys for wireless sensor networks by shielding initiation messages

Perspectives Project
CyLab researchers create a FireFox add-on to verify security certificates

reCAPTCHAreCAPTCHA example
A start-up recently acquired by Google, reCAPTCHA works two-fold in proving you're human and digitizing books.

SecVisor Project
A new response to the growing threat posed to increasingly-complex OS kernels

Visual Intelligence Studio
If computers could develop cognitive ability based on instinctive human reaction, what would the benefits be?

Wombat SecuritiesWombat logo
The research behind this spin-off focuses on anti-phishing tools and training

Upcoming events

May 20, 2013: CERT Training
Applied Cybersecurity, Incident Response and Forensics
This five-day hands-on course is designed to increase the knowledge and skills of technical staff charged with administering and securing information systems and networks. Security topics such as vulnerability assessment, systems administration, network monitoring, incident response, and digital forensics will offer a comprehensive defense-in-depth experience

June 11, 2013: CERT Training
Managing Enterprise Information Security: A Practical Approach for Achieving Defense-in-Depth
This three-day course begins with a brief review of the conceptual foundations of information security. Next, students will be introduced to the CERT Defense-in-Depth Framework: eight operationally focused and interdependent management components which will be synergistically applied to a fictitious organization's Information Technology (IT) enterprise.

July 8, 2013: CERT Training
Information Security for Technical Staff
This five-day course is designed to provide participants with practical techniques for protecting the security of an organization's information assets and resources, beginning with concepts and proceeding on to technical implementations.

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