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Cargo containers are an attractive target for criminals and other enemies of the state. Yet the most widely adopted method of securing cargo containers--the bolt seal--provides at best limited protection from tampering and illicit entry. Such seals can be defeated quickly and the evidence hidden easily, in a variety of ways. These seals also rely on slow visual inspection to confirm their presence ...

The huge growth in mobile industry including smartphones and tablets, wearable devices, and the internet of things, caused an explosion in the number of sensor technologies and sensory data. This growth was accompanied by huge leaps in wireless communication technologies in term of speed and geographical coverage. When a highly-trained first responder arrives at an incident scene, an array of comm ...

The integrated system proposed here by the DAT team includes the addition of access control points governed by DAT¿s strong authentication system. Such access control points involve minimum cost of deployment and should allow direct integration into existing legacy SCADA systems. The DAT system fuses 7 different credentials into an incalculable and continually dynamic authentication system. Altho ...

Legacy SCADA systems, and the systems being sold today, lack the security required to prevent attacks. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) and security monitoring tools can work as compensating controls by identifying and stopping attacks. Unfortunately, existing security systems do not identify SCADA specific attacks. Our proposal will add SCADA specific knowledge to IDS and security monitoring too ...

An advanced monitoring system is proposed to improve the security and reliability for the electric utility power grid. Next generation sensor platforms deployed across distribution and transmission systems will communicate in real-time with a central monitoring hub via a secure wireless network. The advanced monitoring system will provide a backup for existing SCADA systems and sensors in the even ...

Fractal Systems Inc responds to HSARPA needs for the development of novel alternate technologies to Cl2 in municipal water purification purposes. Our recent experience, in collaboration with our consultants Prof. Paul (University of South Florida/Aqua Virotech, and Prof. Valsaraj, Louisiana State University), indicates that the purification of E.coli using high surface area TiO2 can be performed b ...

SIFT`s DOODLEBUG approach provides a revolutionary approach to intrusion event correlation and fusion. Existing correlation systems are brittle, mostly rule-based systems that provide centralized correlation of intrusion events from very restricted areas. They require access to confidential information of the systems whose events they correlate, share those systems` false positive problems, and ar ...

Clothing that protects first responders from chemical, biological, and nuclear threats can subject the individuals to heat stress. These hazardous environments require the use of PPE with level A protection, which can significantly diminish the ability of the body to reject heat to the external environment, leading to symptoms ranging from muscular weakness, dizziness and physical discomfort to mo ...