Advances in technology have enabled dramatic changes in society, such as the ability to quickly spread information throughout the world. At the same time, these technological advances have created new security problems, such as the spread of misinformation, that are difficult to address using traditional approaches to cybersecurity.
Drexel’s Center for Research in Emerging Security Technologies (CREST) is dedicated to identifying these emergent security challenges and addressing them using engineering technologies. Currently, CREST’s core activities are centered around two main topics: Media forensics and Smart infrastructure security.
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Media forensics involves developing AI algorithms to detect fake and or edited media such as deepfakes or Photoshopped images. This research is critical in the fight against misinformation.
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Smart infrastructure security involves developing novel approaches to protect smart buildings and other infrastructure from new security threats. As AI is increasingly integrated into control systems for buildings or the power grid, as well as IoT devices that fill these buildings, new security threats have emerged that cannot be addressed using traditional cybersecurity approaches.
CREST’s core activities are supported by research in several topics including reactive wireless jamming, IC hardware security, anomaly detection, and defenses against adversarial attacks to AI systems.
CREST is led by Co-Directors Dr. Matthew Stamm and Dr. Steven Weber.