Carnegie Mellon CyLab Japan is actively engaging in research projects involving industry-government-academia covering subjects relating to information technology and its application, with an emphasis on topics of information security.

• Collaborative Research
  If a company sponsors research funds and/or supplies researchers, CyLab Japan is willing to partner with them on a research or product development.
• Contract Research
  If a company supplies research funds, CyLab Japan is willing to conduct research on security-related issues.
• Research Assistance
  CyLab Japan as well as the individual professors are willing to accept donations or equipment for the purpose of academic research.
• Donation Lectures / Donation Research
  Upon donation to CyLab Japan, we are willing to provide lectures or donation research.
• Consultation
  Upon request from companies, CyLab Japan is willing to give technical consultation.
• Researcher Dispatching
  If a company dispatches their researchers, CyLab Japan is willing to offer guidance or assistance.

• P2P Software Security Countermeasures
  Development of countermeasures for information leakage and other problems dealing with anonymous P2P file sharing software.
  Ex. Analysis of proliferation of leaked information on the Winny network.
  　　 Suppression of leaked information proliferation through poisoning.
• Electronic Voting and Electronic Elections
  Analysis of the introduction of e-voting in Japan.
  Development of multi-purpose web voting systems
  Re-votable e-voting technology
• Usable security
  Techniques to improve security without losing convenience.
  Ex. Cellphone access through a graphical password.
• Privacy preserving data analysis technologies
  Construction and analysis of databases with no loss of convenience and preserving privacy.
  Data analysis without individual personal information.
• Secure software development techniques
  Practices for secure development of mobile devices and embedded systems.
  Authentication, identification, and access control for smart home appliances.
  Security patterns for software development.
• Construction of a security administration/evaluation model for organizations.
  Vulnerability analysis for local governments.
  Frameworks for improving evaluation for continuous security improvement.
  Development of incident handling frameworks.
  Development of information security analysis tools.
• Security Visualization
  Development of privacy preserving network monitoring system with traffic visualization
• Systemization of multi-purpose reverse engineering
  Development of multi-purpose reverse engineering techniques or environments for information security.
  Ex. Analysis of P2P file sharing software and/or malware/viruses.
• Techniques for detecting intrusions or illegal access
  Techniques for developing automatic or semi-automatic rule generation/tuning/optimizing for intrusion detection systems.
• Techniques for intellectual text and graphical classification
  Mathematical text and graphical classification techniques.
  (Spam filters or web access monitoring/administration)
• Security evaluation for robust encryption protocols/systems
  Development of cryptographic protocols and systems based on highly-tested security.
• Investigation concerning strategies for information leakage incidents
  “Details (Japanese)”