IP-Enabled WAN EMS System

The focus of this project was to determine the feasibility of a ubiquitous, reliable, IP-enabled Next Generation 911 (NG911) infrastructure. A detailed investigation was conducted in order to determine the limitations of both the existing emergency architecture. Germane legislation was then analyzed to determine the constraints of any new proposed architecture. Additionally, past proposals to expand the functionality and reliability of the E911 networks were evaluated. Lastly, the feasibility of an NG911 architecture leveraging existing technology was determined

Vulnerability Assessment in the Cloud

In this study, we reassess vulnerability assessment in the Cloud and develop the open-source 'cvaFrame' framework. This framework reports to the cloud administrator, vulnerabilities and exploits discovered in virtual images. Our contribution to the cloud vulnerability assessment research community is our framework. We build our framework on top of existing tools like Metasploit and OpenVAS and implement it in an existing cloud service 'OpenNebula', to prove that our system works. We tested our software in a production cloud and it was able to find vulnerabilities and exploits hiding in dormant virtual machine images. At this date, we believe we are the first to develop an open-source framework that performs vulnerability assessment within the cloud on dormant images