The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
CERIAS Director Eugene Spafford addressed a congressional committee on October 10th and shared his concerns on security with our nations leaders. More information is available in the Purdue newswire press release.
The archived testimony can be seen in its entirety online - you will need a player from Real.
Free to educational institutions, the first release of the CERIAS Incident Response Database, v. 1.01b, is now available:
https://cirdb.cerias.purdue.edu/website/
The CERIAS Incident Response Database is a web-based system intended to be used while responding to incidents. It has for primary objective assessing the cost of incidents for various uses and criteria. Therefore it supports classifications of incidents (including custom ones) and billing. It records the time it is in use while someone is working on an incident, and attaches the dollar amount (from an hourly rate) to the incident, anonymized by the person’s role played in the incident. In order to have an accurate record of the time spent on an incident, it is feature-rich and has conveniences to encourage its use. It is hoped that it will be the primary repository and archive of incident information.
Professor Jude Shavlik from the University of Wisconsin - Madison will be doing a seminar on intrusion detection systems with low false alarms on November 3-4. This seminar is hosted by Carla Brodley of the ECE department.
For more information, check out more of the details online.
Purdue has been awarded 10 of the scholarships, to start in the fall. Another 10 are for the fall of 2003.
Each fellowship will cover full tuition and fees for 2 years while the recipient pursues a MS degree with specialization in security. The fellowship also covers lodging and pays a monthly stipend, plus a summer internship. In return, the recipient is expected to make satisfactory progress towards the degree, emphasizing courses related to information security (a faculty member will be the advisor for this). Upon graduation, the student will be required to take a job with the Federal government for as many years as the student received the scholarship. For more information, including directions for application, see http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/sfs/.
Indiana Information Security Week (IISW) is April 15-19. CERIAS and several technology partners have developed IISW to bring attention to the challenges associated with information security in Indiana. Activities and programs are designed to enhance the security literacy and skills of businesses, organizations, and citizens. To learn more, visit http://www.iisw.cerias.purdue.edu.
As we conclude our fourth year of research and education, we invite you to join us April 16-18 for the Third Annual Information Security Symposium. Each year our goal is to provide an opportunity to meet students, staff and faculty; learn about our educational initiatives; explore some of our research initiatives; and interact with our sponsors, affiliates, and friends.
Registration: http://www.conf.purdue.edu/cerias/ For more information regarding the symposium: http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_events/events/symposium/Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) are conducting an online survey about Internet privacy. The survey is supported by a National Science Foundation research grant.
A Call for papers has been issued for the 18th IFIP International Information Security Conference
(SEC 2003), to be held in Athens, Greece May 26th - 28th, 2003. More information on this conference and the call for papers can be found at:
The Call for Papers issued for the ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism has been extended through August 1, 2002. More details are available at:
CERIAS has been awarded a National Security Agency grant to establish a Center for the Development of Faculty in Information Assurance.
