Project Grant 1845552

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $173,000 to the Long Beach Research Foundation of California State University to investigate secure embedded field-programmable gate array (EFPGA) redaction solutions and dynamic key schemes for hardware security and reliability from March 2023 to February 2025. The project aims to develop a comprehensive...

This three-year, $483,326 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Florida to develop countermeasures against laser-assisted side-channel attacks on integrated circuits. Side-channel attacks extract secret keys and data from chips using probing techniques, compromising systems in critical infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, aerospace and defense. The researchers will investigate "Eradicator," a multi-layer suite of sensors, randomization and tamper...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $353,258 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for the project "CAREER: SECURITY AS A FIRST-CLASS DESIGN CONSTRAINT IN COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE." The project aims to develop new abstract methods for reasoning about hardware vulnerabilities and an evaluation infrastructure that can be integrated into hardware design tools to incorporate...

The National Science Foundation awarded Securesemi Corp a $255,957 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on November 15, 2021 for work completing October 31, 2022. The grant funds the SBIR PHASE I project "SECURITY EVALUATION PLATFORM FOR AUTOMATING INCLUSION OF HARDWARE SECURITY IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN" based in Milpitas, California. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation and...

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 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 longevity....

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $526,968 will fund the development of countermeasures against laser-assisted side-channel attacks on integrated circuits and electronic systems from 2022 to 2025. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will investigate "Eradicator," a multi-layer suite of sensors, randomization techniques, and tamper response mechanisms to avert such attacks....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) awarded a $148,347 project grant to the University of Maine System (UMS) to develop a new framework for microelectronic security and trust. The key elements of the project are: Using reinforcement learning techniques to discover novel attack vectors against logic locking and identify root causes behind successful attacks. Leveraging explainable artificial intelligence...

This three-year, $425,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop provably secure, online learning-based adaptive cyber defenses for real-world servers. The research aims to provide mathematically rigorous guarantees by synthesizing new models integrating machine learning, game theory, and control theory. It will...