The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology awarded Metronome Software $749,930 to strengthen security for first responder mobile device-based sensor systems.
The DHS Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) Apex Program has integrated multi-threat personal protective equipment, plug-and-play sensors, and advanced communications devices to provide multi-layer threat protection and situational awareness to first responders. The NGFR framework contains the architecture, standards, and hardware to find, access, translate, and display voice, video, and data to first responders.
Metronome along with partners Mobileiron https://www.mobileiron.com and Kryptowire https://www.kryptowire.com, will create the SENsor Secure Enterprise Infrastructure (SENSEl) system. The next stop is to integrate SENSEl into the NGFR framework.
DHS S&T also awarded $645,229 to Northeastern University (NEU) www.northeastern.edu to develop systems to audit and control “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) leaks from connected devices. Researchers at NEU are the process of developing a solution to audit and control PII leaks and then learn how to identify and control information leaks when a user’s PII is not previously known.
The research team will study how to use machine learning to reliably identify PII in network flows, then develop algorithms to incorporate user feedback to adapt to the constantly changing landscape of privacy leaks. The team will build open source applications that will allow users to control how their information is shared with third parties and the team will also address privacy leaks from IoT devices.