Today, the Integrated Maritime Domain Enterprise - Coastal Surveillance System (IMDE-CSS) has evolved well beyond the initial information-gathering requirement into an information-sharing capability.
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate awarded $189,863 today to iProov Ltd. of London, England, to improve the screening process for international passengers. This is the first award to an international company from S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today released its 2018 Mobile Security Research and Development (R&D) Program Guide that introduces the technology projects, goals and objectives and their alignment with DHS and federal mobile security strategies and priorities.
If you're unaware that your tweets could be analyzed by researchers and published in studies without your consent, you're not alone. A majority of Twitter users don't know that researchers often gather and study their tweets according to a new study.
While West Virginia University social media expert Elizabeth Cohen says dramatic changes may not occur in Facebook’s business model—or even in people’s online behaviors—she says Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony is a societal turning point for data privacy discussions. Further, she says, it’s time to classify social media companies like Facebook so the need for regulatory rules—if any—can be determined.
Small businesses in the innovation research and development domains will have the opportunity to engage with the DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program representatives in their own hometowns beginning April 16th.
The Mobile App Security project has two primary research and development foci: continuous mobile app monitoring, vetting and security assurance to safeguard against vulnerabilities and future threats and establishing a security framework and integrated development environments that will result in development platforms.
Gary Warner, cybersecurity expert and director of Research in Computer Forensics at UAB, offers tips on which Facebook settings to pay close attention to.
Less than a month after S&T provided training to teach volunteers how to distinguish relevant pieces of information amid a squall of tweets, news releases and other items that needed vetting before they could be considered actionable, they used their skills in a real-world emergency.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will exhibit and demonstrate 13 mature cybersecurity technology solutions that are ready for pilot deployment and commercialization at the RSA 2018 cybersecurity conference, April 16-19, in San Francisco.
Facebook's current privacy crisis and questions about how Google gathers, uses and stores our personal information demonstrate an urgent need to review and replace inadequate and outdated ways to regulate data and information, according to research from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Northwestern Law hosts second Minow Debate Series April 17 in partnership with Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate series honors Newt Minow’s contributions to public and civic life Debate to be streamed live online
Mike Chapple, associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, says the hacking was sophisticated, clever and carefully designed to appeal to specific professors.
Developed by a team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the HoneyBot is designed to lure in digital troublemakers who have set their sights on industrial facilities. HoneyBot will then trick the bad actors into giving up valuable information to cybersecurity professionals.
The U.S. Department of Energy is proud to announce the 29 university teams selected to compete in the third annual Cyber Defense Competition (CDC), taking place April 6–7, 2018.
Actuarial math and computer science come together in a new study that aims to convince policymakers to invest in infrastructure cybersecurity.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the seventh technology commercialization through S&T’s Transition to Practice (TTP) Program since the start of the current fiscal year.
Indiana University, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Rutgers University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have announced the launch and activation of OmniSOC, a specialized, sector-based cyber security operations center, or SOC, that provides trusted, rapid, actionable cyber intelligence to its members.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has been researching ways to minimize risk from a dam failure and improve the response capability of stakeholders in affected areas.
In less than one month, over a hundred college students from across the United States will convene in one of the largest cyber defense competitions in the nation. The event, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, will take place on April 6-7, 2018. This event will be simultaneously hosted across three of the Department’s national laboratories: Argonne, Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest. The completion challenges students to respond to a scenario based on a real-world challenge of vital importance: protecting the Nation’s energy critical infrastructure from the cyber threat.
The fourth annual, “Road to Reinvention: Leadership in the Digital Age,” conference, hosted by the Center for Digital Transformation (CDT) at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has released two new guides that will boost opportunities to transition its mature cybersecurity solutions and spur community discussion about its research and development (R&D) priorities.
Among the first students in a new program about cybersecurity at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are several women who have escaped a life of human trafficking through AnnieCannons, a nongovernmental organization that helps them learn how to support themselves through coding.
An innovative R&D project led by Berkeley Lab researchers that combines cybersecurity, machine learning algorithms and commercially available power system sensor technology to better protect the electric power grid has sparked interest from U.S. utilities, power companies and government officials.
S&T and HSI C3 are designing, developing, testing, and integrating new face recognition algorithms that will allow agents to sift through massive amounts of digital data much faster and efficiently than current manual processes.
The Department of Homeland Security reminds interested student candidates that the window for submitting applications for the 2018 Secretary’s Honors Program (SHP) Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative (CSVI) will close at 3 p.m. (EST) March 15.
DHS S&T) publicly released the Next Generation First Responder Integration Handbook in February as a guide to industry and public safety agencies on development, design, test and integration of responder technologies.
S&T released today a Request for Information (RFI) for participation in the Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) – Harris County Operational Experimentation (OpEx). The OpEx will take place December 3 -7, 2018, at the Port of Houston in Houston, Texas.
What prompts some people to intervene in cyberbullying, while others just stand idly by? A Cornell University research team has discovered a way to encourage people to intervene – and it can be built right into the design of social networking sites.
Hacker-resistant software for controlling a power grid performed well in both a simulated cyber-intrusion and in a tryout in a real power plant.
ScreenADAPT®, a collaborative research and development technology is an X-ray image analysis training system that tracks the eye movement of trainees as they inspect simulated bags to enhance visual search skills. It has been transitioned to Portland International Airport and other TSA hubs.
A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users’ faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique “challenge” that’s easy for humans — but difficult for attackers who may be using machine learning and image generation software to spoof legitimate users.
Please join us for a Facebook Live Tech Talk on February 22 at 1 p.m. EST to learn more about what S&T is doing to secure surface transportation.
After arguably the worst year ever for cyberattacks and data breaches, Indiana University research suggests it may be time to create an independent cybersecurity agency board comparable in approach to the National Transportation Safety Board that investigates airplane crashes and train derailments.
Students from James Madison University (JMU) will be tackling air travel security issues for the DHS Science and Technology Directorate as part of their spring semester of the Hacking 4 DefenseTM (H4D) class.
DHS S&T awarded a total of $5,643,466 across seven organizations to develop new tools to arm researchers with the latest insight and an increased collection of cybersecurity incident data to understand and counter cyberattacks.
New solutions for cybersecurity, energy and medical research are in the hands of companies who can use them to create new products and services, thanks to efforts to transfer them from the lab to industry. The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory received three awards for excellence in technology transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.
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