Continuous Hardware Component Validation (CHCV) Project
The is clearly a need to validate the integrity of hardware components provided by a supply chain that includes foreign sources that comprise critical US government computing infrastructure, specifically NAVY computing assets. The approach to mitigate the current hardware security risks will be to add core kernel modifications that will characterize, monitor and validate connected hardware and how it interacts with the operating system in real time.

The results of this project will be research grade but functional computer software capable of validating the integrity of select hardware components in computer systems. The capability may be used during system development, and/or during field deployment. The capability will be usable in two modes:

* The auditing of procured systems before an operating system is installed via a boot version of the capability.
* The auditing of hardware components already integrated or interfaced with critical systems during normal operation.
 
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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.