The RaysCyberLab is part of the Computer Science Department of Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO). Members of the laboratory are engaged in cutting-edge research on all aspects of computers, networks, and information security. We do both theoretical and systems work in areas such as data and application security, network security, security modeling, risk management, trust models, privacy and digital forensics, database systems, e-commerce, and formal methods in software engineering. Current research includes:

  • Access control models and techniques
  • Anomaly detection
  • Attack modeling: security risk models, optimal security hardening
  • Cyber-physical systems security: heavy vehicles, oil and natural gas production facility, nuclear power plants
  • Data and applications security
  • Event processing and data streams
  • Firmware security
  • IoT security
  • Privacy and anonymity
  • Security protocols
  • Trust Models: non-binary context-sensitive model of trust
  • Understanding human factors in security
  • UML model analysis

News

The latest news about our work.

Indrajit Ray and Indrakshi Ray are a part of the Connected Communities initiative
Indrakshi Ray was featured in the NSF Monthly Newsletter
Indrakshi Ray Podcast Interview
Indrajit Ray was awarded NSF Convergence Accelerator Award

Indrajit Ray won the NSF Convergence Accelerator Award – Proactive End-to-End Zero Trust-Based Security Intelligence for Resilient Non-cooperative 5G Networks

Army Research Laboratory joins CCAA
Hossein Shirazi won the Anita Reed Award

Hossein Shirazi, from our group, won the Anita Reed award 2021

Dr. Indrajit Ray got a new grant from DoE

Dr. Indrajit Ray has got a new grant, Flexible Simulation Environment for the Evaluation of Cyber Risk in Nuclear Power Plants, from DoE, 2021

Dr. Indrakshi Ray awarded Professor Laureate

Dr. Indrakshi Ray has been awarded the Professor Laureate at the College of Natural Sciences of Colorado State University, 2021 – Dr. Ray’s Professor Laureate lecture on Youtube

Statnett joins CCAA

Statnett, Norway, joins CSU’s Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation Center

Cyber Risk Research joins CCAA

Cyber Risk Research joins CSU’s Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation Center

IEEE LCN Best Paper Award

We won the best paper award for the paper “Improved Phishing Detection Algorithms Using Adversarial Autoencoder Synthesized Data”, 2020.

CSU COVID-19 Research Grant

Congressman Joe Neguse announces $199,748 grant for Colorado State University COVID-19 research.

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NSF Award

NSF awarded RAPID: Ensuring Integrity of COVID-19 Data and News across Regions

CSU Ventures Platinum Award

Our research won the platinum award in CSU Ventures: Drivers of Innovation category at the CSU graduate showcase.

Participated at Cyber-Truck Challenge

We participated at the inaugural Cyber-Truck Challenge, Warren, Michigan, 2017. The event was a great success. Read more at  CSU source.

Falsified COVID-19 Records Detection

Colorado State University to deploy machine-learning tool that can detect falsified COVID-19 medical records.

Paper Accepted

Poster Paper accepted at The 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2017.

Paper Accepted

Full-Length paper accepted at The 15th International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust, 2017.