Research
Reifer Consultants is pursuing innovative solutions to current research problems in the following areas using a mix of customer-provided and internal funds:
Malware
- Reifer Consultants is currently building prototype tools to protect software against malicious code and insider/outsider attacks under MDA sponsorship.
- Reifer Consultants is presently working as part of the Sentar Cyber Gemone team to develop metrics for this DARPA project.
- Reifer Consultants is currently developing threat model taxonomies for the MDA Structured Application Protection Project (SAPP).
Software Maintenance
- Reifer Consultants has been researching the topic of software maintenance to find out exactly what work software people perform and how it is and can be better estimated/budgeted by life cycle support organizations. Reifer Consultants is also assisting in collecting maintenance cost and quality data for use in substantiating its findings, recommendations and conclusions.
Software Testing
- Reifer Consultants is investigating software testing best practices for a consortium of firms in an effort to improve how organizations tool and perform this vital activity. In order to provide better insights during testing, Reifer Consultants is also developing new metrics and models (including reliability) for use during execution of this phase of the life cycle.