What's in Lockheed Martin's wireless security lab?

Here's a quick peek at what Lockheed Martin is working on in its wireless security lab:

CyberDefense R&D project. "An ongoing R&D effort integrates command, control and battle-management applications into a cyber defense environment. The project also models vulnerabilities in such dense-signal environments as cities, helping operators better plan and orchestrate defenses in advance of a cyber attack and in real-time during an attack. The goal is to evaluate a suite of tools that cyber officials can use to coordinate defenses across agencies, departments and geographic boundaries."

Commercial intrusion-detection evaluation. "On behalf of a government customer, we conducted an evaluation of various wireless intrusion-detection applications and measurement devices from commercial industry. We then made recommendations to the government on implementation and integration of these tools that would create the strongest defense against potential wireless intrusion."

Deployed 802.11 wireless vulnerability assessment. "We conducted an extensive assessment of a deployed 802.11 wireless network for a government customer, helping them optimize their security architecture and practices before the network went 'live.' Working with a model of the network and nodes integrated with our wireless lab, we determined potential and likely attack vectors, evaluated vulnerabilities, modeled a variety of attacks, and devised strategies and improvements for improving defenses."

FASTCRACK R&D project: "One of our strategies with the lab is to model potential new and emerging cyber-attack techniques, so that we can better prepare and test defensive strategies and technologies. Under the FASTCRACK research and development effort, we created a cheap, portable device that can quickly crack standard Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption on 802.11 networks. The device uses powerful processors from a popular video-game console -- which are both readily available and low-cost -- to rapidly conduct the extensive computations required to crack network encryption."

--Brad Reed

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