This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000 to Cornell University for a 3-year project from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The project focuses on the design of secure account management tools and frameworks to improve personal account security and foster safer digital ecosystems for individuals facing targeted attacks. The research agenda has four main aims: 1) understanding the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $229,443 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a framework for deriving unique yet privacy-preserving device identifiers. The key objectives are to: (a) design and implement a protocol for generating these identifiers, (b) explore methods to familiarize users with the identifiers without disrupting their experience,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will provide $214,617 to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to conduct research and educational activities focused on enhancing the safety and user experience of online activities. The project will collect and analyze physiological data from subjects engaged in various online tasks, using machine learning and other advanced techniques to model the...
The University of South Florida received a $287,406 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). The award will support research from April 2021 through March 2024 toward developing age-aware continuous authentication on personal computing devices. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communications research...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to develop improved measures of financial sector cyber risk. The project aims to define and empirically measure systemic cyber risk, which occurs when there is concentration among technology suppliers and dominant firms in a sector employ few security controls. The research leverages comprehensive data on IT infrastructure products and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northeastern University a $150,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to investigate user needs for access control systems in smart environments. The two-year award will support research to comprehensively study user demands and desires for multi-user and multi-device access controls in settings like smart homes, offices, and factories. The University will conduct dedicated user...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $349,276 supports research at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop innovative machine learning and natural language processing techniques for automated analysis of documentation related to networked systems security. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the project aims to leverage documentation sources like specifications, developer guides, and other materials to discover security...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $100,000.00 was awarded on June 15, 2022 to Texas Tech University to develop a technology platform to automatically measure user susceptibility to social engineering attacks. The platform will quantify individual users' personality traits, demographics, education, and experiences using publicly available information to estimate susceptibility to phishing attacks. This will help...
This $193,399 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports research to strengthen the foundations of computational intractability needed for robust cryptography. The project aims to explore novel resource-constrained adversarial models to improve cryptographic security, with two concrete goals: (1) improved cryptographic hardness amplification, yielding extremely hard...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from June 2021 to May 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research to understand, analyze, and improve password authentication practices across the web. As part of its mission to advance computing and information sciences, the NSF program supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing,...