The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
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
As director of VACCINE, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, David Ebert’s goal is to help our nation’s 2.3 million extended homeland security personnel, including first-responders, perform their jobs more effectively by turning mass amounts of data into manageable information.
President Obama issued an executive order Friday that establishes an Insider Threat Task Force to prevent potentially damaging and embarrassing exposure of government secrets, such those made public by WikiLeaks.
Eugene Spafford, executive director of Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, said the president’s action was long overdue. “Why haven’t they been doing this already?” asked Spafford, who has testified before Congress on IT security matters. “This is at least 10 years too late, if not 20.”
A focus on securing legacy IT architectures rather than on developing secure technology has created an untrustworthy environment that eventually will drive users offline, said Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford.
