WORLD CLASS SPECIALISTS AND RESEARCHERS
The collective vision, passion and hard work of the Red Balloon Security research team has made universally compatible security for embedded systems a reality.
LEADERS IN RESEARCH
Members of the Red Balloon Security team have led major DoD funded research activities.
FUNTENNA
Breaking the air-gap
Improvisation of a RF transmitter via GPIO to overcome air-gapped systems.
DARPA RADICS PROGRAM
Protecting the power grid
Red Balloon provided embedded defense to protection relays, RTUs and network equipment to increase device protection, detect attacks and bring device level forensics.
ACADEMIC BREAKTHROUGHS
The team at Red Balloon have published seminal research papers in the fields of embedded security and established themselves as thought leaders in academic communities.
From prey to hunter: transforming legacy embedded devices into exploitation sensor grids.
Cui, Ang, Jatin Kataria, and Salvatore J. Stofo. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, pp. 393-402. ACM, 2011.
BADFET: defeating modern secure boot using second-order pulsed electromagnetic fault injection.
Cui, Ang, and Rick Housley. In 11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 17). USENIX Association, vol. 180. 2017.
Utilizing electromagnetic emanations for out-of-band detection of unknown attack code in a programmable logic controller.
Boggs, Nathaniel, Jimmy C. Chau, and Ang Cui. Cyber Sensing 2018. Vol. 10630. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2018.
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Automotive Exploitation Sandbox: A Hands-on Educational Introduction to Embedded Device Exploitation.
Boggs, Nathaniel; Cui, Ang; Kataria, Jatin; Laulheret, Philippe. escar USA: Embedded Security in Cars. 2018.
Symbiotes and defensive mutualism: Moving target defense.
Cui, Ang, and Salvatore J. Stolfo. In Moving target defense, pp. 99-108. Springer, New York, NY, 2011.
