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News Release 15-096

A partnership to secure and protect the emerging Internet of Things

National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation team to improve the security and privacy of computing systems that interact with the physical world using a new cooperative research model

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Android Nexus 7 tablets attached to  a monitor next to intensive care hospital bed

Android Nexus 7 tablets attached to intensive care unit bedside monitors, displaying an annotation application. The green and red buttons allow clinicians to annotate alarms as useful or not useful, respectively. Based on their current smart alarm research, the team is planning to apply a similar approach to detect attacks on medical devices.

Credit: Alexander Roederer, University of Pennsylvania


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illsutration showing a fingerprint and networks

The National Science Foundation, in partnership with Intel Corporation, announced two new grants totaling $6 million to research teams that will study solutions to address the security and privacy of cyber-physical systems. A key emphasis of these grants is to refine an understanding of the broader socioeconomic factors that influence CPS security and privacy.

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Cyber-physical systems integrate sensing, computation, control and networking into physical objects and infrastructure, connecting them to the Internet and to one another.

Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, NSF


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