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Cyber security research engineer Kevin Nauer works at a mobile file server at Sandia National Labs Cyber Engineering Research Institute. (DEAN HANSON/JOURNAL) When a rogue nation took over computer controls at multinational coffee company Schmucks Bucks this summer to shut it down, computer engineering students counterattacked at Sandia National Laboratories. Student teams hacked in to turn the brewer back on, in effect, providing fresh cups of coffee all around. While fun and educational, the training exercise at Sandias Cyber Engineering Research Institute offered a hands-on simulation for real-world scenarios, albeit for enemy attacks on national infrastructure and industries, said Kevin Nauer, a computer forensics expert at the institutes Research Engineering Cyber Operation and Intelligence Lab. Sandias newly created cyber institute, established in 2011, regularly conducts such exercises to encourage computer professionals to work in teams to resolve cyber threats. Its part of the institutes mission to build partnerships with academia and industry to train cyber security
specialists and develop new ways to protect online networks. We want to get people together in synthetic task environments to develop a foundation of skills where everyone is operating off the same sheet of music, Nauer said. We bring people into a live environment that pits them against one another in weeklong games. We throw attacks at teams for them to figure out how to respond.
Sandia National Labs Cyber Engineering Research Institute. (DEAN HANSON/JOURNAL) Other research focuses on data analytics, taking massive amounts of information and extracting things to detect potential problems. We need to detect anomalies in network traffic, which means analyzing huge sets of data to determine whats happening at the host and network levels, Cook said. We want to make computer systems inherently more secure by eliminating vulnerabilities that emerge because of the complexity of systems.
At New Mexico Tech, researchers have worked with Sandia on ways to conduct digital forensics with huge mounds of data. Were talking terabyte-size data sets, said Lorie Liebrock, former chair of computer science and now dean of graduate studies. A lot of digital software doesnt work well because it cant process data sets that big. Both universities have benefitted from training and workshops, which Sandia offers to college and high school students, and to cyber security professionals, to train new generations to work in cyber defense and to strengthen the skills of those already working. The institute enables more collaboration with people outside of Sandia, Saia said. Ive been able to attend very good workshops there without the typical rigmarole to get onto the (military) base. It makes it easier for people from all over the U.S. to come and work on these problems together.
Cognitive research specialist Chris Forsyth works in the EEG lab at the Cyber Engineering Research Institute.