The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to develop novel security approaches for protecting field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) used in cloud computing environments. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to introduce secure operating mechanisms and a security and queue management unit (SQMU) to enable controlled sharing of FPGAs...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded a $1.2M Project Grant to Northeastern University from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research to develop next-generation resilient cloud infrastructure to secure scientific cyberinfrastructures including network-attached accelerators. Key focus areas include identifying advanced network-layer attack...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program grant, with a total funding amount of $213,716, was awarded to the University of Central Florida (UCF) on March 1, 2024. The 5-year project will investigate techniques to systematically identify and mitigate microarchitectural information leakage vulnerabilities in modern computer systems. Key research efforts include: 1) developing microarchitecture-level models and analysis frameworks to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $353,258 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to develop new methods for reasoning about and mitigating hardware security vulnerabilities in computer architecture. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to create abstract models and evaluation infrastructure for assessing microarchitectural security, introduce a...
This $295,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to train the future research workforce to develop and use AI-based cloud cybersecurity solutions that are fair, ethical, and unbiased. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award, which begins on August 1, 2024, include: Developing and integrating seven advanced experiential learning modules, referred to...
This $194,999 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enforce expressive security policies using trusted execution environments. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building secure systems by automatically placing security-critical application components within secure enclaves, reducing the programming challenges. The work includes developing a...
This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of an Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation framework at Colorado State University-Pueblo from August 2022 to July 2025. The framework aims to address challenges in effectively assessing and prioritizing the hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities often identified across multiple virtual environments in cloud infrastructures through two research thrusts. The first thrust will...
This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at Northeastern University to improve the security of machine learning models in multi-tenant cloud field programmable gate array (FPGA) environments. The three-year award aims to advance understanding of vulnerabilities in cloud-FPGAs shared by multiple tenants, where a malicious actor could potentially manipulate another tenant's machine learning...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $616,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research from June 2021 through May 2024 to develop secure hardware virtualization contexts for ephemeral cloud computing. The goal is to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery...
This Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of a security-focused framework to protect collaborative scientific computing in machine learning as a service (MLaaS) environments. The key research thrusts of the project include: Robust model protection techniques to hinder reverse engineering of machine learning models while preserving their utility. Behavioral monitoring...