"State-of-the-art monitoring platforms fail to detect malicious attacks, such as in 2022 when attackers stole about $2 million worth of cryptocurrency from users of the Korean crypto exchange KLAYswap. The hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the Internet’s routing ecosystem and web authentication certificates.

Mittal proposes building a novel network monitoring framework, Layer7, to detect and mitigate malicious attacks. In his IP Accelerator proposal, he noted that of all the network and security monitoring options available, 'none address the fundamental threat of monitoring all networked dependencies invoked by external software and cloud-based hosting.'" Read about the four Princeton faculty award recipients.