Portable and Programmable Media Forensics Characterization Toolkit (PPMF-CT)
Recent explosive growth in the use of portable media devices presents many challenges to security professionals. An increasing percentage of new media devices are programmable and have wireless networking capabilities. Because of their increasing programmability, data storage capabilities, sophistication, and interaction with traditional computing assets, new media formats are increasingly becoming part of forensic investigations. Thumb drives, media players, PDAs, and other ancillary devices that dynamically connect with computers systems through a range of interfaces can hosts information or logic that needs to be analyzed as part of a thorough forensic analysis. Tools to analyze these highly complex and ever-changing portable media devices are much less mature and piecemeal than traditional assets for characterizing system hard drives.
 
Project Leads
Newton Brown, PNNL
Wayne Meitzler, PNNL

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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.