The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Eugene H. Spafford has been named as a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA.
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?
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.
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.
