A team of Volgenau School of Engineering researchers had their innovative cybersecurity defense published in the March 2016 issue of IEEE Computer magazine, which has a circulation of more than 60,000.
In the article, The Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE) team of Angelos Stavrou, Dan Fleck, and Constantino Kolias proposed a "moving-target" defense against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The defense works by repeatedly shuffling client-to-server assignments to identify and eventually quarantine malicious clients.
Denial-of-service attacks, which work by overwhelming a target system thereby forcing it to shut down and deny service to legitimate users, are increasing in severity as assault methods become more sophisticated and attackers' goals more sinister.