Information
Security: Academia
United Kingdom
Information
Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway is an interdisciplinary
research group comprised of computer scientists and mathematicians.
The group offers an active research environment with over ten established
academic posts and a large number of research students, making
it one of the largest academic security groups in the world.
US: National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information
Assurance Education
Alabama
Auburn
University -
Information Assurance Laboratory (IAL) - The
objective of the Information Assurance Laboratory is to study
and develop new techniques of assuring secure and accurate
data transmission and reception.
Towards that end, the IAL plays a key role in supporting the activities of
both Auburn's center for Innovations in Mobile, Pervasive, and Agile Computing
Technologies (IMPACT) and the Samuel L. Ginn College of Engineering's wireless
curriculum.
California
Naval
Postgraduate School - the Center for Information Systems
Security Studies and Research - Located
in Monterey, California, the Naval Postgraduate School Center
for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (NPS
CISR) is the Country's
foremost center for military research and education in Information Assurance
(IA), defensive information warfare, and computer and network security. CISR's
mix of experienced military officers and government and civilian students make
it uniquely qualified to address security issues of the Department of Defense
(DoD) and U.S. Government.
Stanford
University - the Security Lab is a part of the Computer
Science Department at Stanford University. Research projects
in the
group focus on various aspects of network and computer security.
University
of California at Davis
-
to improve the current state of computer security, through
research and teaching.
Florida
Florida
Florida State University Information Technology Assurance
and Security - the
Department of Computer Science has undertaken an initiative
in Information Technology Assurance and Security, which includes
software reliability, information assurance, and computer
and communications security.
Georgia
Georgia
Institute of Technology - Georgia Tech invested
in the future when it established the College of Computing
in 1990, one of several college-level
computing units at a major U.S. research university.
Idaho
Idaho
State University - National Information Assurance Training
And
Education Center
University
of Idaho -
The Idaho State Board of Education established the Center for
Secure and
Dependable Systems (CSDS) at the University of Idaho
in response to the overwhelming need for computer-related security
education and research.
Illinois
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Security
Research Resource Link
Indiana
Purdue
University - the
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance
and Security (CERIAS) is currently viewed as one of the world's
leading centers for research and education in areas of information
security that are crucial to the protection of critical computing
and communication infrastructure. CERIAS is unique among such
national centers in its multidisciplinary approach to the problems,
ranging from purely technical issues (e.g., intrusion detection,
network security, etc) to ethical, legal, educational, communicational,
linguistic, and economic issues, and the subtle interactions
and dependencies among them.
Iowa
Iowa
State University promotes education, research,
and outreach in Information Assurance. Over two dozen faculty
members from six academic departments work together in the
Information Assurance Center to explore the problems of securing
information in application areas ranging from software to
networks to electronic democracy. ISU offers Information
Assurance course concentrations in the home departments supporting
BS, MS, and PhD studies, and a new multidisciplinary Masters
of Science in Information Assurance.
Maryland
Capitol
College is the only independent college
in Maryland dedicated to engineering, computer sciences, information
technologies and business.
Johns
Hopkins University - Information
Security Institute (ISI) is the University's focal point for
research and education in information security, assurance and
privacy. Securing cyberspace and our national information infrastructure
is more critical now than ever before, and it can be achieved
only when the core technology, legal and policy issues are adequately
addressed. ISI is committed to a comprehensive approach that
includes input from academia, industry and government.
Towson
University - the Center for Applied Information Technology
(CAIT) at Towson University responds to the needs of the business
community in the region by providing education and training in
current information technology (IT) skills and practices, as
well as providing consulting services to the community in information
technology issues and solutions.
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County - the UMBC Center for Information
Security and Assurance (CISA) promotes research, education, and
sound internal practices in information security and assurance.
It is administratively housed within the College of Engineering
and closely linked with the Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering (CSEE).
University
of Maryland University College
(UMUC) has a statewide mission to provide
higher education opportunities to adult, part-time students.
Massachusetts
Northeastern
University - the Information Assurance Center at Walsh
College provides organizations with education, information
and training
in responding
to cyber threats from terrorists or criminals and safeguards
the nation’s information assets.
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst The Department's Computer Science
Research Center on the UMass Amherst campus is home to over 30
research laboratories generating advances in areas such as Autonomous
and Multi-Agent Systems, Electronic Teaching, Foundations of
Computing, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Machine Learning,
Networking, Distributed Systems and Security, Robotics, Computer
Vision and Wearable Computing, Software Systems and Architecture
Michigan
Walsh
College - the Information Assurance Center at Walsh College
provides organizations with education, information and training
in responding
to cyber threats from terrorists or criminals and safeguards
the nation’s information assets.
Mississippi
Mississippi
State University - Computer
Security
Research
(CCSR)
is
dedicated
to
the
scientific
exploration
of
computer
vulnerabilities
with the
objective
of
improving
prevention
and
detection
techniques
through
our
core
research
areas.
We
promote computer
security
education
and
research.
Nebraska
University
of Nebraska at Omaha -
the
scope
of
NUCIA
is
purposely
designed
to
be
inclusive
and
broad.
Besides
the
traditional
technical
areas
of
information
assurance,
NUCIA
work
in
a
wide
variety
of
areas
including:
computer
science, management
information
systems, criminal
justice,
public
policy, law,
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