Research

Securing convergent ultra-large scale infrastructures requires novel and transformative scientific advances in:

1. defining security goals at such a scale and measuring goodness of the highly dynamic security state against these goals;
2. composing security provision across a diverse range of legacy and non-legacy systems with varying degrees of opaqueness and visibility about their individual security policies and controls;
3. runtime assurances in the absence of an a priori complete or stable system and security specifications (including threats);
4. orchestrating incident response in the presence of potentially divergent strategies in constituent systems and striking the optimal balance between human-machine decision-making.

SCULI’s research objectives are fourfold:

• Predictability at ultra-large scale
• Composition at ultra-large scale
• Continual assurance at ultra large-scale
• Incident response at ultra-large scale