DISCUS: Distributed Innovation/Scalable Collaboration in Uncertain Settings
Modern times challenge organizations and their leaders to adapt quickly and well to complex, fast-moving circumstances under trying conditions. Data sources are numerous, distributed, and contradictory. Challenges are difficult to detect and diagnose, widely dispersed, and constantly changing. Sources of knowledge and expertise are distributed, of varying quality, and difficult to integrate. Moreover, the tools of the trade are increasing in technological sophistication, computational intensity, and require specialized hardware, software, and care and feeding.
 
Project Leads
Dave Goldberg, NCSA
Mike Welge, NCSA

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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.