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Center for Security Technologies


Securing Our World Through Technology

Security technology is a matter of national importance. The Center for Security Technologies addresses fundamental questions in the design of advanced security systems.
 
The Center’s approach concentrates on the ability to discover, assess, and obviate potential problems and threats to security arising from both malicious planned attacks and natural events. Our scientific and technological development will explore and resolve some of the most challenging security problems facing the nation, including:

  • border and physical infrastructure security
  • information security and cybersecurity
  • public health and well-being

while integrating legal, economic, social, and policy aspects into these system solutions.

Our clients include agencies and companies in: law enforcement, forensics, data security, credit card validation, currency and coin validation, and ultrasonic fingerprinting.

Our experience and patents cover a variety of applications, including: fingerprint, face and voice recognition, steganography, internet security, and complex, massive database searching.

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CST Challenges

The Department of Homeland Security has outlined the following challenges critical to our national security and having broad applicability. The Center will directly impact these challenges by developing security technologies using its Research Thrusts and flexible universal system frameworks developed and demonstrated through the Security Testbeds:
Border and Physical Infrastructure Security
Information Security and Cybersecurity
Public Health and Well-Being
 
CST Research Thrusts


CST's scientific and technological areas of strength have been organized into the following intellectual thrusts:
Sensors
Advanced Electronic Systems
Information-Theoretic Signal and Image Processing
Recognition Theory and Systems
Vision for Security
Distributed and Mobile Systems
Network and Information Security
Detection, Isolation, and Accommodation of Faults
Law, Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy
 
CST Security Testbeds


The Center's thrusts are including in various ways in the following engineering demonstration testbeds:
Biometrics and Physics-Based Recognition Systems
Networks of Video Cameras
Fast Searching of Massive Databases
High-Speed Network Security
Security of the Food and Water Supply

Washington University in St. Louis Center for Security Technologies
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive, Box 1127
Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
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