CERT researchers are looking toward a next generation approach to security engineering. Our driving vision is a networked world in which software and systems can be understood far better and faster than is possible today. In this view of the future, system responses to attacks, accidents, and failures are simply modes of their programmed behavior, modes that must be more thoroughly designed and analyzed than is practical with today's traditional methods.

The research performed in the CERT Program takes advantage of the most advanced theory and practice available, and is flexible and adaptable in addressing a rapidly changing set of problems and constraints in the real world.