Cyberattacks

Cyberattacks on medical devices and health care systems can endanger patient lives. A project led by a team of Vanderbilt faculty—the Advance Risk Management and Operational Resilience for Hospitals system—is a vulnerability mitigation platform to help avert and thwart such threats. Its development got a $7 million boost from the federal ARPA-H program. Read More

The May 21 event at King’s College brought together world-class researchers and academics as well as representatives from industry, and government officials, to explore the latest advancements in research, identify pathways for collaboration, and discuss challenges and solutions for post-quantum cryptography. Read More

Daniel Balasubramanian, a senior research scientist at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, will lead a four-year $6.89 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create realistic network environments used to train cyber agents to counter advanced and persistent cyber threats. Read More

(iStock image) Last Friday, a global “ransomware” cyberattack was launched that has now reached computers in 150 countries, including the U.S. The cyberattack continues to present an ongoing threat for computers and systems that have not yet been protected. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer… Read More

New algorithm can help identify vulnerable polling stations and spot tampering after the fact. Read More