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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.

Partners in Security Research

  • Department of Defense

  • Port Authority

  • QCI

  • U.S. Army

  • U.S. Navy

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The Curious World of Very High Speeds

Secure space travel, air travel and defense operations all require a careful understanding of environmental stresses at very high speeds as projectiles, rockets, planes and other objects interact with atmospheric gases, water droplets and debris. Stevens is leading the way.

Security By the Numbers

$15 million
Dept. of Defense quantum funding
Mach 7
Speed of objects studied in Stevens shock tunnel
20+
Collaborating universities in the Stevens-led SERC

Securing the Future, Across Disciplines

Stevens develops leading-edge security technologies, studies and leadership.

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Systems Thinking is the Heart of True Security

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

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Reining in Rogue AI: Stevens Students Lasso First Prize and $10K in Homeland Security Design Challenge

DASSHing Ducks soar to victory with LiDAR LASSO, a spoofing system that halts autonomous vehicle threats.

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

Placing Cybersecurity Front and Center

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

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.
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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

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