Vision & Mission: The Cyber Defense & Network Assurability (CyberDNA) Center at the Collage of Computing and Information Systems of University of University of North Carolina Charlotte has been established to be one of the leading national centers in research and education of network and information security. The CyberDNA Center includes strong and diverse expertise as well as state-of-the-art facilities to address critical network security, assurability and privacy problems of high societal-impact. The CyberDNA offers a unique environment to facilitate joint R&D programs (consortium, seminars and workshops) with the industry, financial institutions, utility service providers and government agencies. The main objective of CyberDNA is to enable assurable and usable security and privacy for smart open society by making cyber defense provable, enforceable, measurable, and automated.

CyberDNA has a unique vision and approach among other national centers including (1) promoting automated analytics and synthesis of designing, configuration and evaluation of mission-oriented security systems, (2) offering leap-ahead research by integrating multidisciplinary research from security, networking, reliability, risk management, economical, behavioral and physical world communities, and (3) developing deployable tools to facilitate technology transfer and workforce (students) education and preparation.

CyberDNA includes many faculties from different colleges and external collaborators who cover wide range security expertise including security configuration, policy-driven security management, intrusion detection, prevention, deception and resiliency, threat/fault diagnosis, risk management, applied cryptology, privacy, application and DB security, wireless security, autonomous agents, data mining, visualization, and complex adaptive systems (collaborating with complex adaptive systems institute) . Our research application domains range from data, applications, end-systems and network security, to critical infrastructure monitoring and assurability.

Location The CyberDNA Center is located in the Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), Office#305A, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC, USA.