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Cyber Defender interns take on national security challenges
September 21, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Nearly every day, a cyberattack or newly discovered zero-day exploit hits the headlines, which makes providing the best training for the next generation of cybersecurity professionals of vital importance. Sandia National Laboratories’ internship institute in cybersecurity, called the Center for Cyber Defenders, has been introducing college students...
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Engineer at Sandia Labs turns error detection into ‘secret language’ for data security
August 9, 2021 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Research into software error detection has led one Sandia National Laboratories engineer to develop a method — it works like two friends who speak their own language — to enhance the protection of digital content like email and social media messaging. Celestino Corral is an electrical engineer...
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Cybersecurity researchers at Sandia Labs take spotlight at national showcase
July 20, 2020, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are earning national recognition for cybersecurity platforms they conceived. Adrian Chavez and Vince Urias were invited to pitch their software to investors, entrepreneurs and prospective customers at a special virtual event sponsored by the Department of Energy to accelerate the commercialization...
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Adrian Chavez

How a chicken farmer landed a job in cybersecurity
August 8, 2019 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Logan Carpenter teases his co-workers when they complain about work. Growing up in rural Madison County, Virginia, he worked on a chicken farm through high school and took up landscaping and painting jobs on the side. Tending poultry, performing menial labor for low wages, and being consumed...
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Personalized medicine software vulnerability uncovered by Sandia researchers
July 1, 2019 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories identified the weakness and notified the software developers, who issued a patch to fix the problem. The issue has also been fixed in the...
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories uncovered a vulnerability in open source genome mapping software that has now been fixed by developers.

New brain-inspired cybersecurity system detects ‘bad apples’ 100 times faster
March 21, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Cybersecurity is critical — for national security, corporations and private individuals. Sophisticated cybersecurity systems excel at finding “bad apples” in computer networks, but they lack the computing power to identify the threats directly. Instead, they look for general indicators of an attack; call them “apples.” Or the...
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Roger Suppona, John Naegle, and David Follett hold Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope.

Paving the way: Sandia researchers earn top Hispanic science and engineering honors
September 29, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The technical achievements of two Sandia National Laboratories innovators will be recognized with 2016 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) Awards from Great Minds in STEM, an organization supporting careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Chemist Bernadette “Bernie” Hernandez-Sanchez won for outstanding technical achievement and is the...
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Bernie Hernandez-Sanchez

Sandia’s California site invites community to 60th anniversary celebration
May 11, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. –Sixty years ago, the Giants played baseball in New York and the Athletics in Kansas City, Dwight Eisenhower was president and Sandia National Laboratories opened its California site in the city of Livermore, which at the time had a population of under 10,000. Because of Sandia’s California site...
Categories: Community / Education, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Technology transfer / Economic Impact
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Sandia tamper-detecting seal is tough to fool
July 7, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A critical area of security is ensuring that something inside a container stays there. Sandia National Laboratories has made the job easier with an innovative technology that detects signs of tampering. “In our world, one advance by an adversary can make a security technology obsolete overnight,” said...
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Sandia cyber-testing contributes to DHS Transition to Practice
September 10, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Through the Department of Homeland Security’s Transition to Practice (TTP) program, cybersecurity technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories — and at other federal labs — now stand a better chance of finding their way into the real world. The innovative TTP program, spearheaded by the department’s Science...
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Cyber Technologies Academy at Sandia offers free classes to high school students
May 2, 2014, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the rapidly changing world of cybersecurity, who better to learn from than the professionals who live in that world every day? High school students are getting just that opportunity through Sandia National Laboratories’ Cyber Technologies Academy, free classes for high school students interested in computer science...
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Cyber Technologies Academy

Sandia internship program serves up challenging national security work with a side of fun
October 17, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Keilan Jackson wanted real-world experience when he shopped for an internship for the summer of 2013. The Arizona State University computer science junior had completed other intern stints where his work was never put to use. From several options, he chose Sandia National Laboratories’ Technical Internships to...
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Sandia Cyber Research Lab formally opens in stressful times
March 14, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An unusual urgency underlay the brief speeches noting the formal opening of Sandia’s Cyber Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) last month. A warning of “malicious cyber activity,” sent out one day earlier by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, accompanied a growing flood of news releases...
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Cyber Engineering Research Laboratory

First Sandia tech showcase shines a light on research, business
September 5, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories’ cutting-edge research and technology will be on display next week at a daylong event. Tips on intellectual property issues and on how to do business with the Labs through licensing, partnership agreements, procurement and economic development programs also will be featured at the first...
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Sandia experts, students explore cyber issues during weeklong summer institute
August 24, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Top graduate students pursuing careers in cybersecurity worked alongside Sandia and other prominent cybersecurity experts in a weeklong summer institute sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories at the Livermore Valley Open Campus. Cyber Security Technology, Policy, Law, and Planning for an Uncertain Future, which followed last year’s institute on...
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Cybersecurity technology, policy, law and planning to be focus of Sandia Labs summer institute for top grad students
March 1, 2012 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Graduate students pursuing careers related to cybersecurity, including specialties in computer science, engineering, law, public policy, economics and social sciences, are being encouraged to apply for Cyber Security Technology, Policy, Law and Planning for an Uncertain Future, a weeklong summer institute at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore,...
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