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Mission The mission of the Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy (ICSP) is to contribute to meeting the nation's cybersecurity defense research and education needs. The goal of ICSP is to become a state hub for cybersecurity research and education, including multidisciplinary programs and research opportunities, outreach activities, and industry partnership.
NSA/DHS Designated CAE-Research The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security named the UGA Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Research, an honor that recognizes the strength of the institute’s cybersecurity and privacy research program, faculty and students.
The designation, which brings prestige and additional access to research grant opportunities and scholarships, comes
under a federal program that’s meant to reduce the vulnerability of national information infrastructure by strengthening higher education and research in cyber security. The honor recognizes that by producing high impact research results, the UGA ICSP is addressing the critical challenge in cyberspace.
Dr. Kang LiSystem Security and CTF Expert
Dr. Roberto PerdisciMachine Learning and Network Security Expert
Dr. Kyu Hyung Lee Software Security and System Forensic Expert
Dr. Jaewoo Lee Data Privacy Expert
HTTP://CYBERSECURITY.UGA.EDU/ AUGUST 10, 2017
UGA Institute for Cyber Security and Privacy
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UGA INSTITUTE FOR CYBER SECURITY AND PRIVACY
AMICO - APPLY MACHINE LEARNING ON MALWARE DETECTION (FUNDED BY NSF&DHS) AMICO is a novel open source software system for accurate behavior-based detection of malware downloads in live web traffic. Once deployed at the edge of a network, AMICO automatically learns how to distinguish between malware and benign software downloads by observing the download behavior of the network users themselves. After the initial learning phase, AMICO is able to automatically detect new (including zero-day) malware downloads in the monitored web traffic, and can alert network security personnel with detailed incident report about the detected events.
AMICO has been deployed in multiple large academic network serving tens of thousands of users, where it was able to detect more than 95% of all new malware file downloads and about 80% of malware files missed by existing defenses.
DARPA CYBER GRAND CHALLENGE A team of UGA faculty and student competed in the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) and entered the final event. The first CGC event opened a new frontier in cyber defense as intelligent systems, not humans competed in an attack and defense CTF-style contest. The UGA team was selected to enter the final competition from a field of over 100 qualified teams from the whole world.
The event was the latest in a series of “Grand Challenges” issues since 2004 by DARPA. Previous well-known challenges included driverless cars and physical robotics, both events had tremendous impact on the technology development and industry.