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An Ionic Black Box

Friday, April 27, 2018

While we embrace the way the Internet of Things already is making our lives more streamlined and convenient, the cybersecurity risk posed by millions of wirelessly connected gadgets, devices and appliances remains a huge concern. Even single, targeted attacks can result in major damage; when cybercriminals control and manipulate several nodes in a network, the potential for destruction increases.

UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor Dmitri Strukov is working to address the latter. He and his team are looking to put an extra layer of security on the growing number of internet- and Bluetooth-enabled devices with technology that aims to prevent cloning, the practice by which nodes in a network are replicated and then used to launch attacks from within the network. 

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An illustration of a memristor as a cybersecurity device that appeared on the cover of Nature Electronics

An illustration of a memristor as a cybersecurity device that appeared on the cover of Nature Electronics. Illustration by Brian Long