In today’s society security of data is of primary importance to both industry and consumers alike. The need continues to grow for the development of resilient networks in the face of physical and cyber-attacks. CATT conducts broad research in the following areas:
Hardware for Secure Systems Network Security Software Security Host Security Multimedia Security
CATT has received more than $7 Million in external funding over the past several years, including a $1.6 Million dollar grant for a Cyber-crime initiative from the The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR). Our research has led to the establishment of a NSA Center of Excellence for Information Assurance Education, and a joint NSF/NSA Cyber Corps Program.
Ongoing Projects
Title:
Anti-Steganography System
Sponsor Name:
IDZap LLC
Priniciple Investigator:
Nasir Memon
Details:
The objective of Phase 1 of this project is to develop the architecture of an anti-steganography system that much like a virus detector will be able to detect the presence of steganography in data entering and leaving a computer system.
In Phase 2 we will develop a commercial package for the detection of steganographyThe objective of Phase 1 of this project is to develop the architecture of an anti-steganography system that much like a virus detector will be able to detect the presence of steganography in data entering and leaving a computer system.
In Phase 2 we will develop a commercial package for the detection of steganography.
Title:
Digital Evidence Reassembly
Sponsor Name:
Digital Assembly, ATC-NY
Priniciple Investigator:
Nasir Memon
Details:
The problem of recovering deleted evidence from a variety of digital storage media arises routinely in digital forensics.
Researhers at Polytechnic have developed and patented a novel approach to reassembling fragmented digital evidence that does not rely on file table information but one that relies on the statistical properties of file contents themselves. The proposed approach can enhance disk analysis tools currently in use and make them robust againstf file table corruptions and certain anti-forensic tools.
The purpose of this project to develop a commercial tool for digital re-assembly in Incubator and in ATC-NT's Rome facility.
Title:
Network Abuse Detection and Control System
Sponsor Name:
TriNetra
Priniciple Investigator:
Nasir Memon
Details:
One of the growing problems faced by network administrators is the abuse of computing resources by authorized and unauthorized personnel. The nature of abuse may vary from using unauthorized applications to serving unauthorized content. Proliferation of peer-to-peer networks and wide use of tunnels makes it difficult to detect such abuses and easy to circumvent security policies. At Polytechnic we have developed system, called Nabs, which characterizes content types of network flows based solely on the payload which can then be used to identify abuses of computing resources. The proposed method does not depend on packet headers or other simple packet characteristics hence are more robust to circumvention. The purpose of this project is to develop a commercial grade version of the system.
Title:
Study of Performance and Scalability of VoIP Security Systems
Details:
Study involves the programming of a SIP aware Application Layer Gateway also known as dynamic pinhole filtering, using a highly parallel network interface processor and the development of a large scale test environment to verify its performance and scalability at carrier class rates
