This webinar will provide an overview of cutting-edge research efforts being conducted at the University of Arizona’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center (CAC) along with one of their affiliate members, AVIRTEK Inc. The CAC mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in the design of cloud-based and autonomic computing systems that are capable of self-healing, self-protecting, and self-optimizing themselves with minimal involvement of users or system administrators. Autonomic Cyber Security (ACS) is a biologically based concept inspired by the human nervous system. Autonomic computing provides the methodology to continuously monitor, analyze, and manage systems, applications and cyber resources so they can meet their specified requirements whenever an abnormal event, such as a cyber attack, fault or accident is observed or detected.