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Getting recognized: Assistant Professor Tom Daniels won an IBM Faculty Award in 2007. The IBM Faculty Awards program fosters collaboration between researchers at leading universities and professionals in IBM research, development, and services organizations. It also promotes curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines strategic to IBM.

Developing applications: Daniels’ IBM Faculty Award supports his research on security models for service-oriented architectures (SOAs). SOAs provide a flexible way to organize business processing by allowing businesses to build applications from networks of cooperating services. The goal of the technology is to help build more secure business processes from SOAs.

Granting success: In addition to Daniels’ most recent award, he received a National Science Foundation grant in 2006 to analyze and understand the who, what, when and where of computer network attacks, and to develop more efficient ways to respond.

Detecting cyber intruders: Another project Daniels has been working on is Detecting Intrusions at Layer One (DILON), which investigates the use of analog and digital characteristics of digital devices for intrusion detection. Daniels and his colleagues have shown that wired network devices can identify the difference between two devices from the same manufacturing run. Daniels believes this research could assist law enforcement by detecting the brand of network card or laptop used by intruders.

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