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Security

Where Innovation Meets Protection

From defending critical infrastructure against cyber threats to testing next-generation aerospace systems, Stevens Institute of Technology leads groundbreaking security research that protects people, assets and interests. Our researchers advance the frontiers of cybersecurity, materials science, systems engineering and emergency management, creating innovative solutions for today’s most complex security challenges.

Securing the Future, Across Disciplines

Stevens develops leading-edge security technologies, studies, leadership

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PARTNERSHIP: Working Beside National Agencies

Stevens collaborates closely with the Army, Navy, Department of Defense and others to keep the nation safe

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SYSTEMS THINKING: The Heart of True Security

Stevens’ multifaceted systems-research faculty study threats, develop preventive technologies and train the next generations of security professionals

The Center for the Advancement of Secure Systems and Information Assurance (CASSIA).

DIGITAL DEFENDERS: Placing Cybersecurity Front and Center

Stevens’ CASSIA research center serves as the hub for the university’s cybersecurity research and workforce training

Quantum Is the Next Defense

Quantum technologies will soon help guide pilots and projectiles, sense threats and transmit data super-securely

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Designing a Super-Secure ‘Quantum Lock’

Goodbye passwords? Quantum computing can make financial, medical and email data impossible to crack

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Why Truly Random Numbers Are Key

Airtight security depends upon super-random numbers — and Stevens’ quantum labs are generating some of the most random known



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How SERC Is Changing the Security Game

Two dozen universities coordinate security research and training, led by Stevens expertise

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$1M to Keep U.S. Infrastructure Safe

Two Stevens researchers, working with university partners including Rutgers, receive $1 million from the Department of Defense to improve monitor of the nation’s key pipelines

Stevens leads the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) of the Department of Defense, leveraging the research and expertise of faculty, researchers and students from more than 20 collaborating universities throughout the United States. SERC is unprecedented in the depth and breadth of its reach, leadership and citizenship in systems engineering.

Security By the Numbers

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Collaborating universities in the Stevens-led SERC

Cybersafe in a Digital Age

Cybersecurity research to protect our data

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Hardening the Cloud — and Devices Connected to It

A Stevens researcher sounded early warnings on cloud security. Now he develops protections for wireless devices

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Innovating Novel Cryptography

As quantum computing evolves, cryptographic methods will need to improve. A Stevens research center is on the case