Palantir: Secure Collaboration and Analysis Portal for CyberCrime Investigations
Cyber crime and cyber terrorism incidents on the Internet are increasing in their complexity and scale. Incidents often span multiple sites, both in their victims and in the infrastructure used by the perpetrator. Investigating and responding to these large scale incidents required a distributed, yet coordinated, team of incident responders, system administrators and law enforcement personnel. NCASSR has funded a range of activities, including tools for secure credential management, privacy enhancement, secure communications, and data and visual analytics. While each of these activities has produced powerful capabilities in their own right, it is in the integration of these and other technologies together that NCASSR has the opportunity to demonstrate a vision of a cyber investigation framework. This vision supports the creation of rapid response teams and aids them in the investigation of cyber crime and cyber terrorism.
 
Project Leads
Randy Butler, NCSA
Von Welch, 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.