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Member Profile: 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. In May 1999, the National Security Agency designated the University of Idaho as one of the initial seven Centers of Excellence in Information Assurance Education. The University of Idaho faculty and researchers have expertise in computer security, power grid control systems, traffic control systems and embedded systems. We conduct research in formal methods, cryptographic protocol design and analysis, survivability, fault-tolerance, intrusion detection systems, security for SCADA and for traffic control systems. We have fully-equipped laboratory facilities which include a fully operational SCADA lab with power generation capabilities and state-of-the-art protection equipment; a traffic control laboratory that includes models of real traffic; and an embedded systems laboratory running commercial RTOS's. Our faculty include researchers who have been active in the field of computer security for over 15 years and have spent the last 10 years working with other engineers in critical infrastructure research, specifically the power grid and traffic control systems.
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Computer Security Research Lab
Institutional Affiliation: University of California at Davis
URL: http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu
Primary Contact: Matt Bishop
Email Address: bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-8060
Member Profile: The Computer Security Laboratory is one of the oldest academic research groups in computer security and information assurance. It is recognized for its pioneering work in intrusion detection, and has contributed to the body of knowledge in many areas. Its members work with faculty in other disciplines ranging from the technical (computer networking, architecture, and other disciplines) to the social (political science, psychology) to the environmental (health informatics). Lab members have been involved in projects that extend far beyond academia, such as the California Top-to-Bottom Review of electronic voting systems. And, of course, the lab continues its extensive research into different aspects of computer science and information assurance.
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Member Profile: The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) has over two dozen affiliated faculty and about one hundred graduate students who work in a broad range of information security areas. The center’s current research thrusts include usable security, mobile device and wireless security, VoIP security, virtualization and trusted platforms, and network security. We actively engage major security vendor companies in our programs and also work with companies that are consumers of information technology security solutions. The center’s research is funded by National Science Foundation, Army Research Office and industry. Our semi-annual security summits bring national and local leaders to define major research challenges in a number of important emerging areas.
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Member Profile: The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a leading institution for applied research in the cyber security of control systems, including application to electrical grid, wireless communications and other critical infrastructure. INL has diversified funding that includes both Department of Energy as co-lead of the National Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Test Bed program, the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division as manager of the Control Systems Security Program, the Department of Defense and many other private and public organizations. INL has a developed program for the full scale cyber security testing of control systems, performing both focused vendor assessments of control system architecture and onsite assessments of control system implementation. The INL has collaborated with system vendors and user organizations in key industry sectors, to provide input to cyber security requirements and standards. In cooperation with other national laboratories, multinational research institutions and governmental bodies, and key industry sectors, the INL has helped to identify and address critical research problems of global impact. The work at the INL is performed by a group of over 100 experienced scientists, engineers, and technicians working in INL’s Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection/Resilience.
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Member Profile: The Information Trust Institute (ITI) provides national leadership combining research and education with industrial outreach in trustworthy and secure information systems. ITI brings together over 50 faculty and senior researchers, graduate student researchers, and industry partners to conduct foundational and applied research to enable the creation of critical applications and cyber infrastructures. In doing so, ITI is creating computer systems, software, and networks that society can depend on to be trustworthy, that is, secure, reliable, available, correct, safe, private, and survivable. Instead of concentrating on narrow technical solutions, ITI aims to create a new paradigm for designing trustworthy systems from the ground up and validating systems that are intended to be trustworthy.
ITI aims to change the way research and education are conducted in the information trust area by closely coupling industry and faculty researchers to create economic opportunity by achieving rapid technology transfer into new products and services and skilled workforce development. ITI's research is organized into three themes: Critical Infrastructures & Homeland Defense, Pervasive and Distributed Systems, and Embedded & Enterprise Computing. Major Centers include the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for Power (TCIP) Center, the NSA IA Education Center, Trusted ILLIAC, the Boeing Trusted Software Center, and NCASSR.
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Member Profile: The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (ISI) is a leader in Information Assurance research and education. It was founded in the Whiting School of Engineering and maintains a strong technical and systems focus, and its impact has been felt at the Applied Physics Laboratory and School of Advanced International Studies, the medical campus and in business education. We are a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the National Security Agency and leading experts in the field.
Through our leading edge research in foundational science and applied technologies and broad range of educational opportunities including a ground-breaking graduate program, ISI is having a significant impact in the region and nationwide. Our research in: electronic voting, networking, wireless, systems evaluation, and medical privacy among other areas are widely circulated among academics and policy-makers. Moreover, ISI is instrumental in homeland security efforts across Hopkins and the region, including emergency health preparedness, bio-terrorism and national defense.
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Member Profile: Sandia National Laboratories develops and applies leading-edge technology to support national security. Working in close partnership with universities and industry, Sandia provides solutions to solve national and global threats to peace and freedom. One of our primary goals is the protection of national information interests through information operations research and application. We employ a system engineering approach that considers all aspects of the information life cycle, including policy, mission objectives, relevant threats, consequences of interest, and critical technical design aspects. Select areas of research include:
We welcome Fellowship proposals in any of these topical areas.
Please note that although much of our research is unclassified, researchers are required to apply for a Department of Energy security clearance.
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Member Profile: Informatics is the evaluation and design of information technology in social, organizational, and economic contexts. Security informatics is the study and design of security technologies within these contexts. Security Informatics integrates frameworks and heuristics from the social sciences, design principles from HCI, and incentive-aware protocols from secure systems design.
Security Informatics builds upon strong theoretical foundations to construct practical solutions that provide security people can understand and privacy tools that they can control. Security Informatics addresses both immediate problems of today, such as phishing, and emerging research problems, including privacy in ubiquitous computing environments. Security Informatics includes a cross-disciplinary networks of researchers, practitioners, and educators. Security Informatics is engaged with areas of research in I3P including the evaluation of insider threats using game theory, the economics of information, secure system response and recovery, and the evaluation of metrics and models. Please see security.informatics.indiana.edu for more information.
Security Informatics works with the Research and Education Networking - Information Sharing and Analysis Center (part of the national ISAC structure), Open Systems Laboratories and the Pervasive Computing Laboratories. The Open Systems Laboratories develops large scale open and free systems. Pervasive Computing adds a unique focus on security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous systems.
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Member Profile: The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, provides objective analysis and effective solutions that address challenges facing the public and private sectors, reflecting the changing nature of a global society. All RAND work is held to exacting standards that are the foundation of RAND’s impeccable reputation throughout the world.
RAND improves policy and decision-making through research and analysis. RAND anticipates emerging issues, establishes new angles of inquiry, and maps the territory for responses by government, business, and society. At times, sponsors or clients may ask RAND to deliver research without suggesting a specific course of action. At other times, RAND may provide a range of solutions with an analysis of advantages and disadvantages. On certain occasions, RAND may formulate or even support clear-cut policy recommendations. What remains constant is RAND’s commitment to public service.
A RAND I3P Post-Doctoral Fellow will perform research in RAND’s Homeland Security Program, which supports the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies charged with preventing and mitigating the effects of terrorist activity within U.S. borders. Projects in this program include critical infrastructure protection, emergency management, terrorism risk management, border control (particularly ports), first responders and preparedness, domestic threat assessments, domestic intelligence, and manpower and training.
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Member Profile: The Dept. of Computer Science at UMass Amherst hosts an outstanding research program based on lively collaboration among its 43 faculty. We have large number of faculty and graduate students interested in security and privacy issues. We are particularly interested in working with a postdoctoral researcher on issues related to pervasive and invasive computing, forensics, networking, sensors, privacy, RFID, medical instruments and medical data, databases, disruption-tolerant networking, programming languages, and mobile computing. We are active in seeking collaborations with industry and other disciplines in order to have the broadest impact of our work. Our security and privacy work is funding by NSF, DARPA, NSA, and industry gifts. We encourage interested applicants to contact Prof. Brian Levine or Prof. Kevin Fu to learn more about our research, support academic environment, and the beautiful geographic setting of the University.
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Member Profile: The Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems develops theory, methodology, and technology to assist in the management of risk for a variety of engineering systems. Industry and government sponsors of research at the Center work closely with faculty and students, contributing their unique strengths and interests and sharing in experience from a broad range of projects ongoing at the Center.
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