Cyber Security

The world depends on secure information systems and networks. SRI cyber security technology protects vital infrastructures against malicious attacks in these key areas:

Cyber Security Solutions

With government and industry partners, SRI strives to improve the security of infrastructures supporting the power grid, refineries, financial systems, telecommunications, and the Internet. SRI's major projects, products, and solutions include:

Emerging Computer Security Threats

For everyone from network administrators to individual Internet-connected PC users, SRI's BotHunter® system detects malware threats, such as botnets, spambots, spyware, Trojan exfiltrators, worms, and adware. 

Malware Threat Information

To help network administrators understand current and emerging cyber security threats, SRI's Malware Threat Center posts daily updates of firewall filters, malware-related domain name system (DNS) names, antivirus statistics, intrusion detection system signatures, and malware binary data.

Cyberspace Operations

Enabling computer network attack (CNA), computer network exploitation (CNE), and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, SRI's Cyberspace Operations team provides rapid development of advanced technical solutions for government clients. Integrating expertise in R&D, system development, and operations, the team delivers novel solutions tailored to clients’ concepts of operation. Team members specialize in wireless, network infrastructure, and industrial control systems.

* SRI's participation is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate.

Projects

CTSRD computer system components
CRASH-Worthy, Trustworthy Systems R&D

SRI and the University of Cambridge are designing, prototyping, and analyzing trustworthy computer systems that can be gradually adopted with high reliability, resilience, and assurance, effectively letting system and application developers ‘wipe the slate clean' in incremental steps.

Topics: Cyber Security High-Assurance Systems Software Engineering Systems Architecture and Engineering
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Cyber Security Research & Development Center

SRI provides technical, management, and subject matter expert support for the wide range of research, development, testing, evaluation, and transition activities conducted through the Center.

Topics: Cyber Security Energy Security Homeland Security and National Defense

Products + Solutions

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BotHunter® Malware Infection Diagnosis System

SRI’s BotHunter system takes a unique approach to discerning networked computers that are under control of hackers, or may be spreading malware infections.

Topics: Counter-Terrorism Cyber Security Homeland Security and National Defense
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Eureka Malware Analysis Internet Service

SRI and partners have devised Eureka, a free online service to evaluate whether detailed analysis of malware threats is warranted.

Topics: Counter-Terrorism Cyber Security Homeland Security and National Defense
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Highly Predictive Blacklisting

To shield computer networks from cyber-attacks, SRI's HPB software analyzes millions of entries from worldwide volunteers participating in a firewall correlation system, and uses them to analyze attack trends.

Topics: Counter-Terrorism Cyber Security Homeland Security and National Defense
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BLADE: Secure Defense for Network Browsers

BLADE blocks even unknown, zero-day attacks without interfering in normal browser operations.

Topics: Counter-Terrorism Cyber Security Homeland Security and National Defense

Press Releases

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SRI International Licenses EMERALD Network Intrusion Detection Patents to IBM

SRI will non-exclusively license to IBM its EMERALD network intrusion detection patents.

Topics: Cyber Security
SRI International and Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security Partner to Provide Technology Solutions to First Responders

SRI International and the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security have signed a strategic alliance partner agreement to foster collaboration relating to the development, testing, and fielding of technology designed to meet the needs of first responders.

Topics: Cyber Security Maritime and Port Security
Department of Homeland Security Renews SRI Contract for Support of the Cyber Security Research and Development Center

SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, announced today that it has been awarded a $9.7 million contract to continue support of the Cyber Security Research and Development Center.

Topics: Cyber Security
SRI International Appoints New Executives to Government Business Development Group

SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization, announced today that Jerry Harrison and Srikanta (Sri) Kumar have joined SRI's Government Business Development group based in SRI's Washington, D.C. office.

Topics: Cyber Security

SRI In the News

Peter Neumann
Peter G. Neumann: Top Cop on the Hair-raising Cybersecurity Beat

Neumann has been working on computers since before Steve Jobs was born. Now the 80-year-old computer scientist is leading an effort to rescue the computer from potentially fatal flaws encoded in its DNA, and build a firewall insurmountable by hackers.

Topics: Cyber Security
Randall Good’s 2013 Outlook: Addressing Technical & Contracting Challenges

This article features predictions for the 2013 Federal IT industry by SRI's Randall Good, director of technical programs. According to the article, “In 2013, government and industry collaboration on Big Data issues will..."

Topics: Cyber Security
SRI's Pat Lincoln looks at a bRIGHT console.
A Computer That Knows What You're Thinking

Imagine a computer that can tell your next move. That's exactly what scientists at SRI have developed. CNET's Sumi Das visits the lab to give you a peek at the technology.

Topics: Cyber Security
Peter Neumann
Killing the Computer to Save It: The New York Times' Profile of Peter Neumann

John Markoff profiles venerable SRI computer scientist Peter Neumann, including his philosophy of design that has remained with him for six decades and that has been his governing principle of computing and computer security.

Topics: Cyber Security
LOGIIC Receives Homeland Security Award

This article reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology (DHS S&T) contracted with SRI International to provide scientific and technical guidance as well as subject matter expertise for LOGIIC.”

Topics: Cyber Security
LOGIIC Receives Homeland Security Award

DHS has recognized the work of the Linking the Oil & Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity (LOGIIC) consortium, granting it their Under Secretary’s Award for Outstanding Collaboration in Science and Technology. SRI provides scientific and technical guidance and subject matter expertise for...

Topics: Cyber Security Energy and Sustainability Energy Security
Scientific Security: Storing Passwords in Your Subconscious

According to this article, team of neuroscientists and cryptographers from Stanford University, Northwestern University and SRI has developed a password system which uses just subconscious memory.

Topics: Cyber Security
Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-Character Password in Your Brain’s Subconscious Memory

This article reports that a team of researchers from SRI, Stanford, and Northwestern have “developed a password/passkey system that removes the weakest link in any security system: the human user.”

Topics: Cyber Security
A New Source Of Support For Natural Gas Vehicle Tech: ARPA-E

This article reports that a research team of neuroscientists and cryptographers from Stanford University, Northwestern University, and SRI International have devised a system so that “users can never actually tell anyone their password — they have to actually key it in themselves to get it right.”

Topics: Cyber Security
Belfast Summit Important in Preventing Cyber World War

This article reports that the Cyber Security Technology Research Summit on Friday, March 16, 2012, will include speakers from SRI International.

Topics: Cyber Security

Events

Ulf Lindqvist
Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Summit

Ulf Lindqvist will participate in a panel discussion about Silicon Valley's cybersecurity thought leadership.

Topics: Cyber Security
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Silicon Valley Energy Summit 2013

SRI is sponsoring this event, which explores best practices, upcoming technologies, government regulation and energy policy.

Topics: Cyber Security Energy and Sustainability Energy Efficiency Energy Security

Publications

Real-Time Low-Power Image Enhancement of Low SNR Imagery with Moving Objects

In this paper, published in SPIE. SRI’s new NV-CMOS image sensor technology is designed to capture images over the full range of illumination from bright sunlight to overcast starlight.

Topics: Computer Vision Cyber Security Homeland Security and National Defense Imaging Technologies Low-Light CMOS Imaging Robotics Sensors

Divisions, Centers + Labs