PAWNS: Programming and testing Applications on a Wireless Network of Sensors
We propose to design and deploy a sensor network testbed to facilitate research in sensor networks at NCSA as part of the Secure Access Grid Laboratory. The testbed will be made available to all registered users and will provide the following:

* an intuitive web-based interface for uploading programs
* ability to associate programs with sensors to create jobs, and schedule jobs to be run on the testbed
* logging of all data and messages generated during job execution
* simple visualization tools for viewing data (via the web interface) while the job is running
 
Project Leads
Himanshu Khurana, 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.