Helping companies prioritize their cybersecurity investments
By securely aggregating sensitive data from cyber-attacks, the SCRAM platform from MIT CSAIL can quantify an organization’s level of security and suggest what to prioritize.
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Safe Paths: A privacy-first approach to contact tracing
A multinational team develops new tools to slow the spread of pandemics.
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Putting data privacy in the hands of users
New platform acts as a gatekeeper to ensure web services adhere to a user’s custom data restrictions.
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The privacy risks of compiling mobility data
Merging different types of location-stamped data can make it easier to discern users’ identities, even when the data is anonymized.
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Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discovery
Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data.
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Protecting confidentiality in genomic studies | MIT News
Cryptographic system could enable “crowdsourced” genomics, with volunteers contributing information to privacy-protected databases.
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Private browsing gets more private | MIT News
New system patches security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing functions.
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LIDS Smart Urban Infrastructures Workshop highlights emerging research | MIT News
Speakers from academia, industry, and government discuss the evolution of smart urban systems.
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Tim Berners-Lee wins $1 million Turing Award | MIT News
CSAIL researcher honored for inventing the web and developing the protocols that spurred its global use.
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MIT experts urge Trump administration to take immediate action on cybersecurity | MIT News
Report warns of hacking risk to electric grid, oil pipelines, and other critical infrastructure.
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