FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 24 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:

When a manufacturing machine is cutting, drilling, or shaping metal, it is following a precise set of digital instructions, with every motor turn intentional. But what happens when there's a subtle change along the way?

That is the problem Matt Jablonski is working to solve. Jablonski, an assistant professor in the George Mason University's Department of Cyber Security Engineering, received $50k from Virginia's Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) through its Industry Faculty Collaboration Acceleration Program. He is teaming up with Northern Virginia-based startup SARC Solutions, which is developing a product called Beholder based on technology licensed fro...