
Cyber Operations
Shaping the Future of Cyber Operations
Johns Hopkins APL’s Cyber Operations Mission Area is shaping the future of warfare through cyber operations, focusing on assuring critical Department of Defense missions, delivering key solutions to enable intelligence and military operations, and developing the systems that underpin novel operational capabilities in cyberspace and across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Highlights
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Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense (IACD)
APL conceptualized, prototyped, and published a framework enabling the integration and automation of diverse cybersecurity solutions to dramatically increase the speed and scale of cyber defense. -
Detecting Malware
Using different types of powerful analytics, the APL-developed REnigma tool enables cyber analysts to quickly review malware. -
Visible Light Communications
For the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), APL is developing mission concepts and integrating operational prototypes of visible light communications capabilities in the Department of Defense—helping DISA enhance data security and alleviate demands on the limited radio frequency spectrum.
Recent News
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Feature Story
Jan 10, 2023Creating a New Cybersecurity Paradigm for a Cloud-Based World
Scientists, mathematicians and engineers at APL are building a new cybersecurity paradigm that’s suited to the realities of how computing and collaborating are done in the 21st century. Their work has applications in health care, weapons systems and space, as well as in protecting critical infrastructure and industry generally. -
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Aug 25, 2022On the Rise: Three Johns Hopkins APL ‘Standouts’ Earn DARPA Early Career Honor
Three staff members at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are among 163 early-career researchers selected as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Risers for 2022. -
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May 6, 2022Johns Hopkins APL Hosts Workshop to Train Tomorrow’s Cyber Defenders
Since its founding in 2014 by APL’s Charlie Frick, the High School Cybersecurity Workshop has provided more than 300 students with hands-on cyber defense training.