Central Texas Cyber Range (CTCR) Research

The CTCR provides research services by drawing on SME/researcher resources from Baylor University, an R1 research institution. Some example research areas include:

• Critical Infrastructure Cyber Resilience (CICR)
  
  Community depends on infrastructure for services such as power, water, food, etc. Such infrastructures have developed and evolved in a decentralize manner and more recently connected to the Internet to allow remote monitoring and operation. As these systems are critical to basic community and often have limited resources for cybersecurity operations, they are tempting targets for malicious actors. CICR (pronounced scissor) focuses on research for the elements of defense-in-depth protection of community infrastructure with focus on vulnerability analysis/assessment, and simulation/emulation of existing infrastructure.
   
• Baylor Secure Software and Systems (BaS3)
  
  Effective system security begins with secure processes, such as communication protocols and defensive development practices. The Baylor Secure Software and Systems (BaS3) group focuses on identifying effective tools and procedures for creating, maintaining, and evaluating secure software and systems from development to operations. BaS3 provides two primary services to the community: (1) conducting practical research in concepts, methods, metrics, and tools to aid in creating, maintaining, and evaluating secure software and systems from development to operations and (2) providing independent security analysis of software and systems for companies and organizations.
   
• Resilience as a Service Infrastructure (RaaSI)
  
  Operational resilience requires effective response to natural and man-made compromise events. In this project, we are exploring the specification and development of an infrastructure to provide secondary services that replace/enhance degraded primary services using computation and communication capabilities of existing network communication infrastructure. In addition, we are researching Network Communication Device (NCD) capability enhancements to enable full support of such resilience services. To enable the infrastructure, we are exploring the development of a system for building, maintaining, distributing, and deploying secondary services in the event of primary service compromise.