ACSA Offers Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security

The ACSA SWSIS program offers a $10,000 scholarship to a woman for use in her junior or senior year of undergraduate studies, or first year of a graduate program (i.e., application may be made in the spring of her sophomore, junior, or senior year, or the spring before entering a graduate program if a bachelor’s degree has already been completed). The scholarship is administered by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

Sandia National Labs Director to Speak on National Security Challenges

November 30th Free and Open to the Public 9am - 10:30am Krannert Auditorium Purdue University West Lafayette, IN

Researchers, Students Receive Awards at the 2011 CERIAS Symposium

Purdue Awarded $1 Million for Cyber Security Scholarships

Spafford Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

CERIAS PhD Candidate Appointed an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association

Temitope Toriola, a 1st year Information Security PhD candidate at CERIAS, was appointed an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association.

NSF awards Purdue $1.5 million to enhance the anonymization and de-identification of sensitive data

Victor Raskin (Linguistics, CERIAS), Chris Clifton (C.S., CERIAS), Luo Si (C.S., CERIAS) and Karen Chang (School of Nursing) received a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance the anonymization and de-identification of sensitive data.

Melissa J. Dark Appointed W.C. Furnas Professor in the College of Technology

CS Colloquium October 4th: “Data-Driven Science for Cyber Security”

Discussed are two projects at CERT to use operationally collected datasets to understand (1) important trends in malware binaries and (2) reliably informing re-investigations for security clearances. Both of these projects fit into CERT’s overall approach for using operational data to drive research in cyber security.

CERIAS collaborates with McAfee to Examine Web 2.0 Technologies in the Australian Workplace

Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube offer value to organizations, but raise security concerns.