The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Keynote presenters of this year’s conference are exceptional experts of the field. Paul Kurtz, a world renowned cyber security expert, former Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the White House Homeland Security Council, presented on the first day. Dr. Marcus Rogers, research scholar, professor, and a fellow of CERIAS delivered his keynote address on the second day.
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.
Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube offer value to organizations, but raise security concerns.
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.
