Illinois Security Lab seeking Students, Postdoc, and Programmer

Illinois Security Lab is seeking PhD, MS, and MD/PhD student research assistants starting in fall of 2012. We also seek a postdoctoral researcher and a research programmer starting as early as the beginning of 2012. All of these positions are … Continue reading

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Integrity Aware Architectures

Remote attestation provides a capability to query systems to determine if they are running trusted software or firmware. New technologies for integrity aware architectures provide the low level support to implement such integrity measures on a wide range of systems, … Continue reading

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Steps Toward Nationwide Health Information Exchange

The PCAST workgroup made its report to the HITPC and HITSC committees of the ONC.  The workgroup felt that the PCAST report provides a compelling vision that could be an important aspect of the learning healthcare system, notes that major policy and … Continue reading

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Assuring Robustness of Radio Spectrum Telemetry

Cognitive radios offer ways to better exploit unused radio spectrum if accurate spectrum availability data can be obtained.  Techniques based on signal propagation analysis and machine learning can limit the risks arising from bad spectrum data provided by malicious parties. Recently … Continue reading

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Secure Multicast for Power Grid Communications

Increasing connectivity of electric power grid substation networks has led to concerns about the security of multicast communications on the substation networks. New research shows how suitable design based on IPsec can provide security with low latency. Smart grid technologies … Continue reading

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Non-Intrusive Load Shed Verification (NILSV)

Smart grid load shedding of consumer appliances during peak periods is challenged by the need to have trustworthy responses from these appliances.  A new design shows how this can be achieved with a “trust-but-verify” framework. One strategy for getting load … Continue reading

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