Secure Systems Lab receives Prestigious DoD Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Grant

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The Stony Brook component of this research will be carried out in the Secure Systems Laboratory by R. Sekar and his students.

Dr. R. Sekar

Department of Defense awards 5-year, $8M grant to a multi-university team consisting of faculty from Berkeley, Illinois, Harvard, Stony Brook and Virginia for a new project aimed at protecting applications on untrusted platforms. This project targets the growing and unmanageable problem of malicious software, including viruses, rootkits, and bots. The central challenge addressed by the project will be that of protecting applications running on a potentially compromised platform. The project will develop hardware, languages, and architectures that enable applications to be protected from a hostile operating system. The Stony Brook component of this research will be carried out in the Secure Systems Laboratory by R. Sekar and his students. For more information, see DoD announcement and list of 2009 MURI awards.