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.

Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer

The State of Information Security Education: Interview with Prof. Eugene Spafford

Spafford comments on “spear phishing”

CERIAS Ranked Top Information Security Program

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —A private company that measures faculty productivity has ranked Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Technology the top program in information security among universities in the nation.

What Your Cell Knows About You

“…forensic code breakers (are) working to go beyond the obvious and familiar…”

Group says e-voting paper trail wouldn’t improve security

“The argument that people trust computers in other places is specious — safety-critical systems have been developed in other contexts using rigorous standards that are not applied to voting machines,” said Eugene Spafford.

Purdue Biometrics Lab featured in ScienceDaily

A study on the cleanliness of biometrics security devices by Christine Blomeke and Stephen Elliot of the Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance Laboratory has been featured in ScienceDaily.

Spafford quoted on diversity in browser rendering engines

“Why do we want more than one layout engine? It helps to spur innovation and means that if a flaw occurs it won’t necessarily be in every browser at once. Having some different implementations of anything is a good thing,” Gene Spafford, computer science professor at Purdue University, told LinuxInsider.

Spaf Speaks in Delta Sky and Computer World

CERIAS Media Citings