The proposed National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace calls for an online system where people must verify their true identity before completing an online transaction.
Spafford Attends White House Cybersecurity Briefing
Professor Eugene H. Spafford of Purdue Computer Science & CERIAS was invited to a briefing at the White House on July 14.
“The fact that multiple very large corporations indicated they had all been victims of this … and many issued public statements and took a stand, that’s not something we’ve seen before,” said Eugene Spafford, a computer security specialist at Purdue University who has advised two U.S. presidents and numerous companies and government agencies.
Professor Spafford describes how events like the recent earthquake in Haiti bring out con artists and scammers, and how to avoid them.
CERIAS is partnering with Northrop Grumman Corp., CMU and MIT to advance research and address the nation’s most pressing cyber threats. This new consortium will work to accelerate the transfer of technology from ideas to real-life application.
Eugene H. Spafford has been named as a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA.
Information assurance is a topic atop many agendas these days, starting with the president’s own cybersecurity initiative. But what is the state of information assurance education?
Professor Eugene Spafford, founder of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Indiana’s Purdue University, said the victim of a cybercrime should not take the blame. If someone broke a door to rob a store, he said, it was usual to charge them the cost of the door.