NC-CIPSeR Substrate Lab
Securing Infrastructure Foundations: Profiling security-technology and visualizing critical interdependencies that underpin infrastructure resilience.
Lab Mission & Methodology
NC-CIPSeR’s Substrate Lab provides rigorous, evidence-based performance profiles for security technologies and resilience tools, offering a blueprint for modern infrastructure defense.
Focus on sub-structural Layers
Profiling the invisible security-technology foundations that underpin critical infrastructure. We analyze low-level code, core libraries, and mathematical execution blocks that usually escape high-level monitoring.
Architectural Verification
Prioritizing hard performance metrics and mathematical architectural integrity over traditional cyber range simulations. We test boundaries of live operations to ensure software models hold under real distress.
Open Source Commitment
All research findings, benchmarking tools, and methodologies are open-sourced to actively support and strengthen national security and prosperity.
Pilot Project
AI Inference Security
A collaborative team of graduate students and experienced sector professionals will conduct comprehensive, low-level performance verification of Fully Homomorphic Encryption applied to AI models and prompt security controls.
Target Sectors: Energy and Defence
2026
01: AI Security Launch
Verification of FHE AI inference and safety-hardening rulesets.
2026/2027
02: Expanded Benchmarking Operations
Scaling pilot methodologies into extensive multi-sector testing frameworks.
Contact Information:
Tyson Macaulay, CISA, P.Eng CIE LEL
Deputy Director, NC-CIPSeR | tyson.macaulay@alumni.carleton.ca