Drone swarms are collections of autonomous devices that move through air, land, sea, or space with no central controller dictating objective or direction. The drones used in these swarms are often limited to having restrained compute resources and little memory due to budget constraints, so developing efficient behaviors is necessary for the drones to work with these restrictions. This research group is concerned with developing swarming behaviors that are light on resources while also being robust to external attacks. Click the title link to learn more.

Modern machine learning methods have helped tackle many problems facing our society. However, despite their ubiquity, there has been little done to understand the security of these methods. The QUIRK project investigates how standard machine learning models could be vulnerable or leak information and then develop secure protections from such attacks. Click the title link to learn more

Out-of-date and rarely updated computing devices control critical infrastructure systems such as power and water distribution. These devices often are complicated to update and patch for vulnerabilities since they control processes that are difficult or costly to stop. When connected to the internet, these devices pose a security risk which (if exploited) could harm the critical processes they are controlling. This project is concerned with researching methods for securing industrial control systems and developing a physical testbed to research and demonstrate security methods. Click the title link to learn more.

The CEDAR Center has been responsible for hosting the Wyoming edition of the NSA GenCyber camp since 2018. During these camps, the CEDAR Center has used the micro:bit hardware platform as the main focus of their activities. Thanks to the many sensors and ease of program afforded by this platform, CEDAR members have created many different activities to help educate high school students and teachers about cybersecurity. Click the title link to learn more about these activities.

Project Canary is another Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) project that is focused on the detection of DDoS attacks. As the power of DDoS attacks increases, early detection and mitigation become ever so important. This project aims to define a rapid detection and mitigation technique to counter the aforementioned DDoS attacks.