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 is chair of ACM’s U.S. Public Policy Council (USACM), and is a Member-at-Large of the ACM Council. He is a professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, and founder and executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) there. His current research interests are focused on issues of computer and network security, cybercrime and ethics, technology policy, and social impact of computing.
In an interview conducted at RSA 2014, Professor Spafford discusses:
The dangerous intersection of information security and government;
The plight of women entering IT security;
How to grow the profession.
The NSA has announced that Purdue-CERIAS has received a five year renewal as a Center for Academic Excellence in Research.
Professor Spafford and others weighed in on the most vulnerable technologies at the 2013 ISSA International Conference.
