Dielectric -- Internet of Things (IoT) Security

A team of researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville are currently developing Dielectric, a lightweight virtualization architecture to secure a broad range of Internet of Things (IoT) systems such as automobiles, industrial control systems, and large cloud-based systems.  The goal is to move the inclusion of cybersecurity features forward, into the design process of the product.  While finding flaws and repairing them continues to be a major focus in cybersecurity research, this research focuses on an architectural approach to building security into the system at the outset.  

The UAH team is funded by a one-year, $299,622 National Security Agency (NSA) grant.  The research team includes three faculty members from the UAH Electrical and Computer Engineering Department – Dr. David Coe Dr. Jeffrey Kulick and Dr. Aleksandar Milenkovic – and two faculty from the UAH Computer Science Department – Dr. Letha Etzkorn and Dr. Sun-il Kim. 

Reece Johnston, Sun-il Kim, David J. Coe, Letha Etzkorn, Jeffrey H. Kulick, and Aleksandar Milenkovic, "Xen Network Flow Analysis for Intrusion Detection," 11th Cyber and Information Security Research Conference, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, April 5-7, 2016.

David J. Coe, Jeffrey H. Kulick, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Sun-il Kim, and Letha Etzkorn, "An Approach to Securing Cloud and Internet of Things Applications, 2016 National Cyber Summit, June 7-9, 2016.