Project Grant 2200622

Morgan State University was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083) for the period of September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support research to develop a unified theoretical framework for zero trust architectures through four key tasks. Specifically, the university will 1) establish an appropriate scale to evaluate trust in cybersecurity systems, 2) prototype and test true zero-trust networks using Amazon Web Services, 3) verify true zero-trust architectures at scale under varied attack scenarios and high utilization stress, and 4) develop an equation of state to evaluate security metrics for these systems. The work directly supports the NSF's mission to enhance competitiveness in science and engineering through foundational research.