Our technical team leaders:
Researchers in George Mason University’s Center for Secure Information Systems have developed CAULDRON.
Sushil Jajodia: is University Professor, BDM International Professor of Information Technology, and the director of Center for Secure Information Systems at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He served as the chair of the Department of Information and Software Engineering during 1998-2002. He joined GMU after serving as the director of the Database and Expert Systems Program within the Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. Before that he was the head of the Database and Distributed Systems Section in the Computer Science and Systems Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Milan and University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy and at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, England.
Steve Noel: Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at the George Mason University Center for Secure Information Systems. His research interests include cyber attack modeling, intrusion detection data mining, and visualization for information security. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2000. His dissertation work was in data mining and visualization for information retrieval. He also earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1998) and a B.S. in Electro-Optics from the University of Houston - Clear Lake (1989). From 1990 to 1998, Dr. Noel was a research scientist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, where he worked in image/video compression, wavelets, neural networks, genetic algorithms, radar signal processing, missile guidance, and astronomy. He has published numerous conference papers, journal articles, and technical reports. He is a member of IEEE, SPIE, and INNS, as well as the Alpha Chi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies.
Dr. Jajodia has served in different capacities for various journals and conferences. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Security and on the editorial boards of IET Information Security, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, International Journal of Information and Computer Security, and International Journal of Information Security and Privacy. He is a past editor of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is the consulting editor of the Springer International Series on Advances in Information Security. He has been named a Golden Core member for his service to the IEEE Computer Society, and received International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Silver Core Award “in recognition of outstanding services to IFIP” in 2001. He is a past chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC), IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, and IFIP WG 11.5 on Systems Integrity and Control. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery.
Pramod Kalapa Research Scientist; M.S., Louisiana State University, 1991. Research Interests: Intrusion Alarm Correlation and Scenario Building, Software Engineering.
CSIS pioneered the field of Topological Vulnerability Analysis (TVA) attack graph technology.
CAULDRON has been independently evaluated for red team/blue team exercises and for support for penetration testing.
CSIS has filed for 5 U.S. patents in TVA/CAULDRON technology.
CAULDRON is currently being used at several government organizations.
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