Here Is Your Chance To Work With A Center Of Excellence

This callout is a mixer for faculty and Purdue students to
to get together and find out if CERIAS is for you or if any project captures your interest.  You can work for credit or pay, or even volunteer - you can learn a lot by participating in a project.  In any case, having a national center of excellence on your resume won’t hurt your career.  If you are interested, please give us some information to help match your skills to projects. You may print it and bring it to the callout, or email it to Pascal Meunier. The callout will be held:

• Date: Tuesday, August 28
• Place: Recitation 121
• Time: 5:30-6:30 PM

Check Out Our K-12 Site Additions

The CERIAS K-12 site is steadily growing. If you haven’t seen it yet or have not been there in a while then check it out. Interesting recent additions include:

 
• Copyright Issues Tutorial authored by a Purdue student
 
• Downloadable Resources for use in the classroom

The kid-friendly, parent and teacher hotlists are still available and are a great resource for links appropriate for children.

CERIAS Undergrad Given Intel Award

Abhilasha Bhargav was named a recipient of the Intel Research Award Contest for Undergraduate Students. Abhilasha will work under the direction of Professor Wagstaff with a focus on watermarking.

ISSA Hall of Fame for 2001

CERIAS’ director, Gene Spafford, was recently bestowed two honors. The first, the Information Systems Security Association recognized him as a Hall of Famer for 2001 and the National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education awarded him the William Hugh Murray Medal for his outstanding contributions to information security. You can read more about it in this article at Yahoo.

IFIP/Sec 2001 Program and Registration Information

IFIP/sec is the annual conference of IFIP-TC11 on “Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems”. This year the conference is back in Europe: it will be held at Disneyland Paris, from June 11-13, 2001. More information on this conference is available online.

CERIAS Searching For Assistant Director

We are looking for a new assistant director here at CERIAS. The official description sums up what we are looking for. If you are interested, please contact us.

Second Annual CERIAS Research Symposium

The second annual research symposium is this week! It will be held on April 26-27 in Stewart Center here on the West Lafayette campus. See the symposium page for more information.

CERIAS Director Awarded Outstanding Teaching Award

Purdue University recognizes their best instructors with the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy. For 2001, Eugene Spafford, the director of CERIAS was bestowed this tribute. This award, the university’s highest undergraduate teaching honor, is given for exemplary performance in all levels of instruction on the West Lafayette campus. You may read more in the news service press release.

Call To Action: Sun Is Listening

This feature story from Sun Microsystems talks about how the corporation is answering the call to improve overall software security and quality. This initiative is partly in response to Sun’s participation in the Security Vision Roundtable CERIAS held in conjunction with Accenture last September.

Anti-Virus Software, Tripwire and ISS Scanner

The Purdue Information Systems Security Office (ISSO) provides lots of security related software products free to Purdue University employees. For more information on site-licensed applications, see the ISSO site.