Spafford Interviewed on IA/IS Education Issues by GovInfoSecurity.com

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?

Spafford Comments on Gary McKinnon Case

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.

CERIAS Prof Finds Confidential Information on State-Auctioned Computers

Rogers found the lottery hard drives contain a list of lottery players, along with their home addresses, email addresses and birthdates; personal emails to and from lottery employees including lewd jokes and information about workers’ children; agency databases, contact lists and contracts; serial numbers and other information about lottery scratch-off and pull tab ticket machines placed in retail stores around the state; and employee usernames and passwords used to log on to state computers.

NSF awards $105m for Earthquake Engineering Center Ops HQ

CERIAS faculty member Prof. Saurabh Bagchi to be responsible for cybersecurity

Spafford Receives CRA Service Award

Professor Eugene Spafford has been awarded the 2009 Computing Research Association (CRA) Distinguished Service Award.

CERIAS Students Honored by CETA

The Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants (CETA) honored graduate student teachers campus wide on Thursday, April 23.

Purdue class treats hard drive as crime scene

Purdue University is schooling law enforcement officers from around the state this week in digital forensics — a sort of crime scene investigation for computers, according to Marc Rogers, a professor of computer and information technology and director of Purdue’s cyber forensics program.

Educators see secure coding training challenges, improvements

Secure coding training courses often take a back seat to other material that competes for inclusion in the curriculum, said Pascal Meunier, a visiting assistant professor at Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) program. Meunier said more security experts need to become teachers and join in the effort in creating and maintaining course material.

Upsilon Pi Epsilon to Present Abacus Award to Eugene Spafford at the UPE Annual Convention

The International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines will present its most prestigious award to Dr. Spafford

Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer