The SOS Research Group is dedicated to research investigation of holistic assurance for networked systems. We believe that the survivability of an entire system is more important than security protection focused exclusively on individual components. Survivability is the sum of the parts, not some of the parts!
The goal of Survivability-Over-Security is to increase the survivability of networked systems using innovative techniques which simultaneously reduce sum vulnerabilities and increase adaptive restoration flexibility. The availability of research programs in Survivability, Information Assurance, and Information Security is not widespread and this group provides state-of-the-art research opportunities often funded by the government and large corporations on significant problems. Our group has published results in a wide variety of IEEE and ACM forums.
We are guided under the direct leadership of Bill Yurcik and are independent of any institution (academic or corporate) and can thus provide unbiased survivability/security analysis.
SOS PGP Public Key available here.
Look for our IEEE Software paper on "Achieving Fault-Tolerant Software with Rejuvenation and Reconfiguration," July/August issue, pp. 48-52.
Look for our paper "A Planning Framework for Implementing Virtual Private Networks," in 
Bryan Smith and Samuel Patton attended the 2001 Phoenix Challenge at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX.