Mobile/Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity

As computing has largely moved to mobile devices and the cloud, new challenges have arisen compared to stationary, local, and physically-secure, in-house servers. While some challenges stem from requirements imposed on computing reliability and energy efficiency, other challenges are related to data security and privacy, both in storage and transmission. Some of these challenges can be attacked at the hardware level, including the development of optical interconnects and integrated photonic devices, quantum communications and computing, green and high-performance computing, System-on-chip (SoC) VLSI security, and cyber/wireless security and privacy. Other challenges require software-based solutions, such as the detection and analysis of malware attacks, detection of clickjacking attacks, software obfuscation for software-hardware attack mitigation, etc. Activities in this area build on ECE’s strengths in computational and network science and connect us to the unique resources of the Massachusetts Open Cloud and the Hariri Institute to create a program centered on the challenges arising from the cloud and mobile computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), server farms, security, and privacy. We invite you to explore our research activities, meet our teams, and read about our success stories by visiting the faculty, lab and research center pages below.

Affiliated Faculty

Azer Bestavros, Richard Brower, Ayse Coskun, Mark Crovella, Manuel Egele, Martin Herbordt, Yigong Hu, Ajay Joshi, Orran Krieger, Wenchao Li, Thomas Little, David Starobinski, Gianluca Stringhini, Ari Trachtenberg

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Affiliated Research Centers
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