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.
2009 Workshop on Information Assurance Research and Education
Sponsored by the Information Assurance Center
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Information Assurance (IA) deals with the protection and defense of information, information systems and networks by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation. With the growing concerns over the security, integrity and quality of the information generated, stored, processed and transmitted by various information systems and networks, IA has emerged as a critically important multi-disciplinary research and educational field. There is a growing demand for well-trained IA professionals which our educational systems need to meet in the coming years. Arizona State University has established the Information Assurance Center, which was certified as a national Center of Academic Excellence on Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) in 2007 and CAEIAE-Research in 2009 by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.
This workshop is 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 new educational and training programs for IA education.
The workshop program for this year is expanded. Speakers from government agencies, industry and academia are invited. In addition to invited talks and panel discussions, the workshop will also have a poster session and demonstrations highlighting the information assurance research activities at ASU, in parallel with part of the program.
Location:
Artisan Court, the 1st floor (east of Brickyard Building, ASU Tempe Campus)
599 South Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85281. Underground parking is available at the workshop site with an entrance at the intersection of 7th Ave. and Myrtle Street, Tempe.
Registration:
Participation for the workshop is complimentary and by invitation only.
To request an invitation, please complete the registration form (Word .doc) and send it through e-mail to iacenter@asu.edu, as soon as possible, no later than May 1, 2009.
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
Download workshop program (Word .doc)
Download tenative list of posters and demostrations (Word .doc)