The AFRL/RI Resilient & Secure Computing on Untrusted Clouds (RESCU Clouds) program keeps close collaboration ties with highly skilled students, professors, engineers, and researchers from academia and industry to conduct different basic and applied research projects. The peculiar diversity of talents working with and cooperating under RESCU Clouds investigate, design, and implement novel methodologies to securely and efficiently outsource data and distribute computations across heterogeneous hostile computing environments and untrusted Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). The research topics of interest focus on zero trust security and include, but are not limited to, (1) decentralized identity and access control mechanisms and protocols, including those that support anonymity. (2) Novel application of existing cryptographic primitives and protocols to zero-trust computing paradigms. (3) Design cross- cloud, CSP-independent, privacy-aware protocols and frameworks that operate in the presence of emerging zero-trust security mechanisms. (4) Enable secure and transparent migration of application and data across heterogeneous CSPs, and facilitate multi-objective optimization in the security-mission trade space. (5) End-to-end data protection, concurrency and consistency for multi-user multi-cloud environments.

Organization: Griffiss