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Workshop on Information Assurance Research and EducationApril 17, 2008, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
With the growing concerns over the security, integrity and quality of the information generated, stored, processed and transmitted by various information systems and networks, information assurance (IA) has emerged as a critically important multi-disciplinary research and educational field. The Information Assurance Center at Arizona State University, which is a national Center of Academic Excellence on Information Assurance Education certified by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security, will hold a workshop to promote research and educational activities in information assurance. The focus of this workshop is on innovative and emerging technologies to address important IA issues, as well as educational and training programs for IA education. This workshop will have invited speakers from government agencies, academia and industry. In addition to invited talks and panel discussions, there will also be a poster session highlighting the research activities in IA at Arizona State University.
Participation to the workshop is complimentary and by invitation only. To request an invitation, please complete the registration form and send it to e-mail: iacenter@asu.edu as soon as possible.
For more information, please visit http://dpse.eas.asu.edu/IAWorkshop for updated information. |
Senior receives Department of Defense scholarship
Devon O'Brien, a Computer Systems Engineering senior in the School of Computing and Informatics, has been selected as one of the 50 recipients of the Department of Defense Scholarship Recipient program. The program is sponsored by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information and Integration and is administered by the National Security Agency. As part of the award, Devon will intern at the Department of Defense (DoD). Devon, who became interested in information assurance after taking a Cryptography class, states "this scholarship will help provide stability in my further education as well as ensuring a job when I graduate and enter the workforce. I am very honored to have been chosen for this scholarship, and am excited to see where this takes me in both my academic endeavors and in my future career."
"We are very pleased that Devon has been awarded this scholarship after the first year ASU's Information Assurance Center was certified as a national Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education," said Dr. Stephen Yau, Director of the Information Assurance Center.
As information assurance becomes more and more critical, the Information Assurance Center anticipates more financial support will be available for students interested in being specialized in this field. Interested students should contact the academic advisors in the School of Computing and Informatics to discuss future financial aid as well as how to enroll in the Information Assurance Concentration programs.
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) 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 IA educational activities include the IA Concentration at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree programs 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.
