Pursuing scientific understanding of complex, distributed cyber systems
The Emulytics™ team at Sandia National Laboratories is focused on using cyber emulation, mathematical modeling, and data analysis methodologies to produce quantitative knowledge about these critical systems, enabling substantiated risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
The term “Emulytics” was coined by practitioners to capture the intent of these efforts – a holistic approach to system emulation and analytics.
HADES
The HADES Platform radically changes the way cyber defenders protect their networks and gain insight by gathering information on the adversary’s tools, tactics and procedures. The High-fidelity Adaptive Deception & Emulation System being developed at Sandia National Labs creates complex and realistic environments that an actor can interact with – something current honeypots and other deceptive techniques do no offer.
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Learn how Sandia is creating tools to manage virtual machine-based experiments at scale.
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See how our tool Sceptre provides a comprehensive ICS/SCADA modeling and simulation capability that captures the cyber/physical impacts of targeted cyber events on critical infrastructure and control systems.
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Learn how Sandia’s Cloud Hypervisor Forensics and Incident Response Platform (CHIRP) uses a Virtual Machine Introspection based approach to pinpoint, track, and record cyber attacks for forensic analysis.
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Sciences program is laser-focused on five core capability areas: patterns of life, cyber analytics, human performance research, information integrity, and statistical sciences. Our teams work closely to bring these core capabilities to bear on some of the hardest security issues facing the nation today.
Industrial Control Systems and Security
We are developing new technologies to combat cyber threats to modern digital industrial control systems to protect Americas infrastructure, including, dams, power plants, water treatment facilities, and more.