The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
“Having email addresses by itself is not much of a threat: people give them out all the time, and spammers can and do guess them easily,” said Eugene Spafford, executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University.
“It is more an issue if you can pair addresses with places of employment, such as government agencies,” he added. “Then it becomes possible to collect further information, and perhaps get a toehold into Google, Bing or other information sources.”
Spafford said academic specialists have been warning for more than 25 years about vulnerabilities in computer systems that can lead to identify theft, credit card fraud and other security intrusions.
Computer security experts say the United States faces a radical shortage of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals who can prevent and combat cyber attacks. One federal official has estimated that there are only 1000 cybersecurity experts in the United States who have the deep technical knowledge required to safeguard national security; tens of thousands are needed, he believes.
Information Assurance Education 2011: A Year of Promise
Professor Spafford discusses the state of information assurance education in a podcast available on GovInfoSecurity.com.
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.
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.
