Project Grant 1520552

Onsystem Logic, LLC received a $254,421 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant to develop methods for rendering malware benign. The grant was awarded on June 15, 2021 under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research and development. The project aims to improve cybersecurity by exploring techniques for neutralizing malicious software so it no...

This $599,978 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to Tulane University. The award is focused on developing innovative hardware-assisted techniques to detect and defend against memory disclosure attacks, known as "JIT-ROP" attacks, which can undermine the security and stability of computer systems. The key product deliverables include: 1)...

This two-year, $174,900 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems will fund research at DePaul University towards developing more accurate vulnerability detection and less disruptive vulnerability mitigation techniques. The goal is to address challenges in reliably finding software vulnerabilities and patching them without compromising system availability. Researchers will design a scheme for encoding intrinsic vulnerability characteristics...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop a method to turn on cancer immunotherapies only at the site of disease. The $275,000 award will support Synsorybio, Inc., a for-profit organization, in creating protein switches that activate immunotherapies in response to disease signals, rather than indiscriminately throughout the body. This approach seeks to improve...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $612,648 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop new methods for securing embedded software. The awardee will shift security enforcement from developers to compilers using static analysis, runtime instrumentation, and hardware support. Enhancements will enable customization and promote...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will fund a $1,200,000 project to develop practical, systematic fuzzing tools that enhance the security of scientific software. The 3-year project, led by the University of Utah, aims to address vulnerabilities in complex, multi-language scientific software by introducing (1) performant cross-language instrumentation, (2) automated...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $330,000 Project Grant through its STEM Education (47.076) program to the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The grant supports the development of advanced teaching modules on software security, focusing on memory corruption attack and defense techniques for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Key objectives include: Innovating the Armitage open-source software vulnerability identification tool. Developing teaching content on Windows...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $994,413 to Kapalya Inc. for the development of an advanced ransomware countermeasure (ARC) platform. The project aims to create the first universally aware software for comprehensive ransomware protection, featuring proactive detection and mitigation of file-based and fileless attacks. Key focus areas include the framework for...

This $305,000 SBIR Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a novel mammalian cell-based nano-biological coating for implantable medical devices. The project aims to create a biocompatible and antimicrobial coating to inhibit biofilm formation and protect against bacterial infections, including antibiotic-resistant strains, on orthopedic implants. Key technical objectives include...

This $174,818 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at the Rochester Institute of Technology to develop novel run-time attestation methods for embedded devices. Run-time attestation techniques aim to remotely detect malware compromising software execution on safety-critical microcontroller units. However, existing methods preclude real-time event processing required by many embedded applications. This...