The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
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.
One of the country’s pioneering figures in computer security was honored in a special ceremony at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on June 18, 2002.
CERIAS, Discovery Park, EPICS and other Purdue groups will be displaying exhibits at Indiana’s State Fair as part of the Indiana 2016 program.
Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for Investigating Cyber Attacks: A National Needs Assessment is now available from the Institute for Security Technology Studies.
A Call for Papers has been issued for the ACM Workshop on Scientific Aspects of Cyber Terrorism, taking place on November 21, 2002 in Washington D.C. More information about submissions and the workshop are available at:
This article in the L.A. Times is testament to the need for information security on all machines - personal or professional. It talks about compromising home PCs with high speed connections and about CERT’s recent warning that home users need to be watching for malicious activity.
A reminder that the ACSAC Committee is currently soliciting papers, panels, forums, case studies, and tutorial proposals for ACSAC. This conference is internationally recognized by information system security engineers, practitioners, and researchers as the place to
exchange practical ideas about solving critical security problems. Approximately 300 attendees are expected with a mix of 70% industry, 20% government, and 10% academia. Last year, about half the papers submitted were from outside the U.S.; we welcome global participation and attendance.
The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2001. For general information or questions about ACSAC, please see our web page at http://www.acsac.org or email Publicity_Chair@acsac.org For specific submission-related information, please see the following web page: http://www.acsac.org/2001/cfp
The security of data speeding along wireless networks should be a critical concern when deploying new connections, according to a report presented at the United Nations.
