The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

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The Amateur Radio Operators Preparing for the Worst (The Atlantic)

Mon, March 14, 2016CERIAS Media Citings

Eugene Spafford, a computer-science professor at Purdue University and a member of the Naval Academy’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board, has been thinking about all the ways computers work (and fail) since 1979. “So many [technologies] are interconnected in ways we don’t see,” he says, “that a longer shutdown lasting weeks or months would be catastrophic.”



Another year, another RSAC

Sun, March 06, 2016General




Apple Fights the Feds on iPhone Security Hack - CNBC

Fri, February 19, 2016CERIAS Media Citings

“This gets to the root of the issue,” said Purdue professor Gene Spafford, a cybersecurity expert who has also advised government agencies including the NSA, FBI and Air Force. “If the Chinese or the Iranian government under their legal system has all the legal requirements met to break the encryption or look at what is on a phone, they would have a same standing as the U.S. government does in this case to compel Apple to cooperate.”



Tracking Plainfield’s cyberthreats: ‘Like peeling an onion’

Mon, January 04, 2016CERIAS Media Citings

Experts say investigations into cybercrime are complicated, and that police are probably making progress that isn’t readily apparent.
“So long as you don’t have someone very sophisticated doing it, they are likely to get caught,” said Professor Eugene H. Spafford, who studies cybersecurity at Purdue University.