Welcome - Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research

Welcome

Welcome to the Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research (CSIIR) Group, the Information Operations Center (IOC), and the Center for Quantum Information Science (CQIS) website at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We have designed this site to be used by both the public and ORNL staff to find out more about what we do. Please take the time to follow the provided links and find out what research we are currently developing here at ORNL.

Overview

Mission and Goals

Conduct basic-applied research toward building truly secure, trusted systems beyond best practices. Fundamentally, seek to understand the threats in the context of our critical assets and information infrastructure; to develop innovative end-to-end integrated core capabilities and solutions to deny adversaries the opportunity to find and exploit vulnerabilities; to validate advanced technologies that can be brought to defend, preserve and minimize risk; and to enable equitable information access and real-time situation awareness. Specific goals include:

Understand existing and emerging threats;
Advance state-of-the-art in insider threat detection, deterrence, and mitigation;
Ensure continuing security, survivability, and dependability of national critical infrastructure through pro-active scalable rapid prototyped technologies.

We manage ORNL’s Information Operations Center (IOC), a cross-disciplinary research and development organization providing real-time operational support for ensuring information superiority. We are leading the effort to establish the Center for Quantum Information Science (CQIS). QIS advances promise significant benefits to society. Research thrusts include quantum theory, quantum information pr ocessing, entangled-photons, quantum optics, quantum cryptography, and quantum source. Both centers leverage the best of ORNL’s science and facilities and strong collaboration with academia.

Interests and Activities

Insider Threat Detection & Mitigation	Dependable & Secure Software Engineering	Knowledge Discovery - Cyber Space
Applied Information and Decision Theory	Quantum Entanglement Source	Secure Algorithm Analysis
Discrete Optimizations	Non-Linear Time Series Analysis	Inherently Secure Scalable Systems
Game Theoretic Optimization of Security Practices	Modeling Group Motivation and Intent	Securing Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
Software Agent and Information Fusion	Secure Algorithm Analysis	Trusted Computing Base Architectures
Red Team	Threat Assessment and Characterization	Vulnerability Assessment

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