Thrust Areas

i.Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

• -Algorithms and applications, software and hardware realization, FPGA, VLSI, DSP, smart cards for security, protocol analysers
• -Authentication and authorisation techniques, role based access rights, Biometric identification / authentication systems, Trust models and technologies that do not rely on a previously determined trusted third party, in dynamic environment

ii. Network and Systems Security

• -Virtual Private Network Security solutions
• -Security of key internet protocols (Ipv4 to Ipv6), Domain Name System (DNS) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), routers, servers
• -Security of wireless devices, protocols and networks
• -OS Security and trusted OS
• -Automatic generation of test suites, safe programming languages
• -XML security

iii. Security Architectures

• -Survivable architectures and intrusion tolerant systems that allow for degradation of certain capabilities while ensuring that critical functionality remains available
• -Autonomic systems that can sense and reason about their internal components and state and recovery oriented computing
• -Self-evolving systems/ Self-strengthening systems that can monitor themselves and adapt to change
• -Secure and survivable storage systems

iv. Vulnerability and Assurance

Vulnerability Detection and Analysis

• -Source / Object code scanning tools, Device (hardware, firmware, communication media, storage media ) scanning tools, Host and network based scanners, system configuration checkers
• -Tools and techniques for modeling interdependencies and vulnerabilities in systems
• -Risk analysis tools

Assurance Technologies

• -Tools for efficient product evaluation and system level evaluation
• -Assurance tools for software security
• -Network Audit Tools

v. Monitoring, Surveillance and Forensics

Intrusion Detection

• -Virus scanning, malicious code detection
• -Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (network and host based), distributed and intelligent proactive Intrusion Detection Systems
• -Intrusion detection for high speed networks

Content and Traffic Analysis

• -Cracking code/passwords /logs
• -Content filtering tools for Indian and other languages
• -Intelligence gathering tools
• -Intelligent traffic analysis
• -steganography and steganalysis

Computer Forensics

• -Computer forensic tools for speech and imaging
• -Automated trace-back tools, Network forensics
• -Automated Recovery, damage assessment and asset restoration tools