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Professor Robinson to lead computer defense project
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The U.S. Department of Defense will award a team of 11 researchers, including five from UW-Madison, $4.2 million for a five-year project to explore problems related to protecting critical national infrastructures. Much of our national infrastructure is built around networked systems, including computers, that are vulnerable to attack. However, testing these systems by subjecting them to known threats is expensive and, in such cases as air-traffic control or hospital-operations systems, would be impractical. Industrial and Systems Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor Stephen M. Robinson will lead the project, in which investigators will develop a framework to identify and characterize threat scenarios and to measure vulnerabilities in critical systems.
In addition, they will develop and test a system architecture that automatically detects and responds to potential threats and vulnerabilities.
The team consists of faculty from five universities. Other UW-Madison team members include Vicki M. Bier (industrial engineering and engineering physics), Pascale Carayon (industrial engineering), Thomas G. Kurtz (mathematics and statistics) and Mary K. Vernon (industrial engineering and computer sciences).