Defense focused research is a key mission component of the Center for Cyberspace Research (CCR). CCR faculty possess extensive operational experience in military communications and security. In addition, the faculty have close working relationships with Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Air Force organizations. This synergistic approach promotes an environment for collaborative research that solves real-world communications and security issues facing our nation and national defense.

On-going research efforts:
 
• Area-efficient encryption algorithms
• Anonymous communications
• Collaborative remotes sensing networks
• Biometrics and radio frequency identification
• Botnet disruption
• Cooperative satellite architectures for secure communications
• Code obfuscation as software protection
• CyberCraft
• Cyber force development
• Cyberspace command and control
• Detecting encryption in object code
• Defensive cyber operations
• Developing security frameworks for systems
• Digital forensics and software protection
• DDoS mitigation and anonymity
• Hardware random numbers generators
• Insider threat
• Intelligence amplification
• Intrusion detection, mitigation, and avoidance
• Network management and security
• Network intrusion detection and analysis
• Real-time dynamic reconfigurable computing
• Risk assessment of embedded weapon systems
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems
• Security architectures, systems modeling and policies
• Social engineering
• Software protection
• Wireless network security
• Wireless communications exploitation and security