About the Information Assurance Center
Information systems through various types of networks have been indispensable for modern societies in the information age. In order to use and process information with great confidence, both the information systems and networks as well as the information must be trustworthy. To achieve this objective, users need not only dependable and secure information systems and networks, but also effective mechanisms to ensure the integrity and quality of the information.
The Information Assurance Center in the School of Computing and Informatics of Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU is a multi-disciplinary center focus on both the research and educational activities to address the broad issues of developing trustworthy information systems (TIS) and ensuring the quality of information being stored, processed and transmitted by information systems and networks.
The Center has been certified as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance - Research (CAE-R) by the National Security Agency & the Department of Homeland Security.
Current research activities involve in foundational, network, system and application aspects of developing TIS, including logic, languages and tools for development of secure systems, composition methods; measuring, modeling, analyzing, verifying and testing TIS; steganography; facial recognition, video surveillance, multimedia data processing, survivable network design; dynamic and deterministic Quality of Service management; data mining for security, privacy in data management; and situation-awareness.
The Information Assurance (IA) educational activities at ASU include the IA Concentration in five degree programs: B.S degree in computer science, B.S.E degree in computer systems engineering, M.S. and M.C.S degrees in computer science, and Ph.D. degree in computer science. The IA courseware has been certified by the Information Assurance Courseware Evaluation (IACE) Program to satisfy the standards for (1) Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals (NSTISSI 4011) and (2) Senior Systems Managers (CNSSI 4012). A number of courses have been offered or be planned to be offered, including Introduction to Information Assurance; Computer and Network Security; Applied Cryptography; Reliable and Secure Computer Systems and Networks; Data Mining for Security Applications; and Data and Application Security. Short training programs in Information Assurance and Security for practicing engineers have also been planned.
The Center is also actively engaged in technology transfer and continuing education for industry as well as assisting IA educational activities in community and minority colleges.
Information Assurance Center Seminar
Cyber-Physical Security Solutions
Sandeep K. S. Gupta , Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University
2:00 – 3:15 p.m., Friday, February 12, 2010
Location: Brickyard Room 210, 699 S. Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ
For more information, please see the Events page
2010 Workshop on Information Assurance Research and Education
Sponsored by the Information Assurance Center
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Following the successful IA workshop in 2008 and 2009, the 2010 IA workshop will be held on May 5, 2010 at ASU. As before, this workshop series will focus on innovative and emerging technologies to address important IA issues, as well as new educational and training programs for IA education.
The workshop program will feature invited speakers from government agencies, industry and academia as well panel discussions. This workshop will also have a poster session and demonstrations highlighting the information assurance research activities at ASU, in parallel with part of the program
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Stephen S. Yau, Director, Information Assurance Center
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 878809, Tempe, Arizona 85287-8809
E-mail: yau@asu.edu , Telephone: 480-965-3190