The ASCEND cyber defense system will revolutionize cyber defense by measuring, understanding, and exploiting behavioral vulnerabilities to prevent cyber attackers from achieving their attack goals effectively and efficiently.
Led by SRI, the multidisciplinary team behind ASCEND includes researchers and experts from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, George Mason University, RAD Science Solution, SimSpace, Two Six Technologies, the University of Florida, and Virtual Reality Medical Center, as well as independent consultants. Together, this team will create a game-changing, cyberpsychology-informed cyber defense system for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and its partners.
Read more about ASCEND’s role in IARPA’s Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) program.
More detailed project information, including data collected during human subject research experiments, will be made available in late 2025.
For more information, please contact Grit.Denker@sri.com and Laura.Tinnel@sri.com.
This research is based upon work supported in part by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), via N66001-24-C-4505. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of ODNI, IARPA, or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation therein.