The CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute proposes to build a “World Class” Security Analysis and Information Assurance Laboratory (SAIAL) that would be utilized by outstanding UTD research faculty and also available for our university and corporate partners. This lab would have cross disciplinary capabilities (engineering, software, public policy, etc.) with unique telecommunications engineering and software expertise/experience that can range from devices to systems. This UTD laboratory attributes would be complementary to (not competitive with) other publicly funded university laboratories. UTD’s laboratory would merge security testing and the development of advanced security techniques while other similar laboratories focus mainly on security testing or the development of security techniques. In addition, many labs only look at disaster recovery methods and the UTD laboratory will seek to prevent future disasters. Detailed capabilities of the proposed laboratory are given below.

Capabilities of the Security Analysis and Information Assurance Laboratory will include:

• Simulation and testing to identify security vulnerabilities of multi-vendor information systems and networks

• Benchmarking and quantifying security vulnerability

• Customized and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Software analysis tools

• “White hat” hacking techniques to advance the use of Customized and COTS Software analysis tools

• Repository of known and suspected vulnerabilities and powerful analysis techniques for vulnerability assessment

• Design and development of advanced Security Evaluation Techniques

• Design, development and validation of Advanced Security Technologies

• Development and testing of advanced digital forensic techniques

• Intrusion detection and intruder tracking

• Contribution to security policy and standards.

This laboratory would be an extremely useful Homeland Security tool used extensively by UTD’s CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute and our collaborative partners, especially the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).