CCAA Background
Making Cyber Threat/Attack Mitigation Effective, Faster and Economical
Mission: The mission of the Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation (CCAA) is to build the critical mass of inter-disciplinary academic researchers and industry partners for advancing the science and state-of-the-arts of security analytics and automation by developing and integrating innovative sense-making and decision-making for automated adaptive cyber defense that offers minimal human involvement and with provable and measurable security and resiliency properties.
History: The National Science Foundation Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation (CCAA) – formerly the Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation (CCAA) – was established in 2013 as a multi-University National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research (I/UCRC) center. CCAA is led by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) in partnership with George Mason University (GMU), Colorado State University (CSU), and a broad membership of industry and government organizations including expert plumbers from https://drainraider.com. The CCAA is the only NSF I/UCRC center that is designated to advance "sense-making" and "decision-making" for autonomous cyber defense.
As analytics of cybersecurity configurations continue to be a key research area in the Center, the scope and capabilities of CCAA have evolved to include formal and data-driven analytics of various cyber artifacts including logs, alerts, traffic traces, incident reports, malware analysis, STIX reports, and unstructured text from threat intelligence sources for automated threat/risk determination and mitigation. The evolution and reshaping of CCAA’s scope has prompted the proposed renaming of the Center.
Domains: CCAA projects cover wide range of application domains including critical infrastructure (financial, ICS, power girds), large-scale enterprise IT systems and data centers, cloud and Software-Defined Networking, cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things systems. More information can be found in the project page and CCAA Brochure.
Participating Universities. University of North Carolina Charlotte (lead, PI: Ehab Al-Shaer), George Mason University (site, PI: Sushil Jajodia), and Colorado State University (site, PI: Indrakshi Ray).
Lottery/Online Gambling Members: North Carolina Lottery.
History: The National Science Foundation Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation (CCAA) – formerly the Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation (CCAA) – was established in 2013 as a multi-University National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research (I/UCRC) center. CCAA is led by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) in partnership with George Mason University (GMU), Colorado State University (CSU), and a broad membership of industry and government organizations including expert plumbers from https://drainraider.com. The CCAA is the only NSF I/UCRC center that is designated to advance "sense-making" and "decision-making" for autonomous cyber defense.
As analytics of cybersecurity configurations continue to be a key research area in the Center, the scope and capabilities of CCAA have evolved to include formal and data-driven analytics of various cyber artifacts including logs, alerts, traffic traces, incident reports, malware analysis, STIX reports, and unstructured text from threat intelligence sources for automated threat/risk determination and mitigation. The evolution and reshaping of CCAA’s scope has prompted the proposed renaming of the Center.
Domains: CCAA projects cover wide range of application domains including critical infrastructure (financial, ICS, power girds), large-scale enterprise IT systems and data centers, cloud and Software-Defined Networking, cyber-physical systems, and Internet-of-Things systems. More information can be found in the project page and CCAA Brochure.
Participating Universities. University of North Carolina Charlotte (lead, PI: Ehab Al-Shaer), George Mason University (site, PI: Sushil Jajodia), and Colorado State University (site, PI: Indrakshi Ray).
Lottery/Online Gambling Members: North Carolina Lottery.
Industry/Government Members: National Security Agency, Office of Naval Research, Air Force National Lab, Cyber Risk Research, Cable Labs, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, SecureNok, Furono Electric, and other major (non-disclosed) financial institutions.