Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University
Center for Information Security, University of Tulsa
Center for Secure and Dependable Systems, University of Idaho
Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Computer Security Research Laboratory, UC Davis
Cornell University
Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University School of Law
Georgia Tech Information Security Center
H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Idaho National Laboratory
Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Information Technology and Operations Center, US Military Academy
Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems, New York University
Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MITRE Corporation
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
RAND Corporation
Sandia National Laboratories
School of Informatics, Indiana University
Software Engineering Institute, Canegie Mellon University
SRI International
University of California at Berkeley
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Virginia
Member Name: Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
Acronym: CERIAS
Institutional Affiliation: Purdue University
URL: http://www.cerias.purdue.edu Member Profile: 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.
Member Name: Center for Information Security
Acronym: CIS
Institutional Affiliation: University of Tulsa
URL: http://www.cis.utulsa.edu/ Member Profile: The Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa is a member of the I3P Consortium. The center was established to concentrate institutional research, education and outreach efforts in information assurance and forensics, and was first designated as an NSA Center of Excellence in March 2000. The Center is supervised by its Director, and is comprised of university faculty in computer science and related disciplines pursuing core and multidisciplinary initiatives in information security. The primary objectives of the Center are to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field, to educate its growing workforce, to raise awareness of critical social, legal and technological issues, and to support national, state and local homeland security and law enforcement efforts.
Member Name: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ Member Profile: Established in 1979, the Columbia University Department of Computer Science is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Drawing upon Columbia's tradition of research and teaching excellence, the department of 32 faculty and 600 students works closely together in an open, collegial atmosphere. Our curriculum places equal emphasis on theoretical and experimental computer science. Areas of research range across the entire spectrum of computer science. Students at all levels are encouraged to participate in our world-class research centers.
Member Name: Cornell University
URL: http://www.cornell.edu Member Profile: Cornell University has made a significant investment in research, education, and outreach on topics involving cyber security and trust. More than a dozen research projects fall into this area. Cornell sees the issue as one of the great challenges of our time, and one that transcends mere technology to emcompass legal, economic, ethical, technical, and social aspects. Under the aegis of the Information Assurance Institute, Cornell tackles the fundamental problem of ensuring the security and reliability of our global critical computing infrastructure.
Member Name: Georgia Tech Information Security Center
Acronym: GTISC
Institutional Affiliation: Georgia Tech
URL: http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/ Member Profile: The mission of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center is to: Invent and evaluate the key innovative user-centric security technologies and policies that will yield significant impact; Educate future researchers, policy makers, and information security leaders, and train current professionals in the most up-to-date methods for securing information systems; Provide a trusted set of resources and a safe haven where individuals and industrial, academic, and government organizations can access, understand, and evaluate issues related to new technologies and policies.
Member Name: Idaho National Laboratory
Acronym: INL
URL: http://www.inl.gov/ 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.
Member Name: Information Technology and Operations Center
Acronym: ITOC
Institutional Affiliation: United States Military Academy
URL: http://www.itoc.usma.edu/ Member Profile: The Information Technology and Operations Center (ITOC) is a research center in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy. The mission of the ITOC is to educate and inspire cadets and faculty in the acquisition, use, management, and protection of information through innovative teaching, curriculum development, research, and outreach to Army, DoD, and federal agencies. The center is responsible for teaching and developing a variety of courses. Included in these courses is Information Assurance, Information Warfare, Host Forensics, and Network Forensics.
Member Name: Information Trust Institute
Acronym: ITI
Institutional Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://www.iti.uiuc.edu/ Member Profile: The Information Trust Institute (ITI) is concerned with enabling the creation of computer systems and networks that society can depend on to be trustworthy, that is, secure, dependable (reliable and available),correct, safe, private, and survivable. Rather than focusing primarily on narrow and focused technical solutions (which will quickly become outdated), ITI aims to create a new paradigm for designing trustworthy systems from the ground up, and validating systems that are intended to be trustworthy to determine whether they are indeed trustworthy. Furthermore, ITI will provide focused education and training to ensure a domestic workforce that is capable of creating next-generation trustworthy systems.
Member Name: Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems
Acronym: ICIS
Institutional Affiliation: New York University
URL: http://www.icisnyu.org/ Member Profile: The Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS) at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service was established with funding from the National Science Foundation. ICIS research focuses on a policy context to homeland security issues that pertain to critical infrastructure protection. Research underway at the Institute includes the relationship of information infrastructure to sustaining the viability of other critical infrastructures, such as energy, transportation, telecommunications, water supply, and environmental protection infrastructure. ICIS homeland security research that focuses on critical infrastructure protection has funding from U.S. DHS through three university centers. In addition to the I3P at Dartmouth College, other funding is as a partner with the university Center of Excellence, the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California and through the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) at New York University. www.nyu.edu/icis
Member Name: Institute for Security, Technology, and Society
Acronym: ISTS
Institutional Affiliation: Dartmouth College
URL: http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu Member Profile: ISTS strengthens homeland security through interdisciplinary research,education and outreach programs that focus on technology critical for cyber security and trust. ISTS nurtures leaders and scholars, educates students and the community, and collaborates with its partners to deploy technology to benefit our community and to better understand technology's impact on our security. ISTS research improves our ability to design secure computer systems and protect them from attacks, across networked computing devices, and addresses social, economic, and policy issues that arise in the development and deployment of such technology.
Member Name: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
URL: http://www.lbl.gov/ Member Profile: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab holds the distinction of being the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories. The Lab is managed by the University of California.
Member Name: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
URL: http://www.ll.mit.edu/ Member Profile: MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose fundamental mission is to apply science and advanced technology to critical problems of national security. Within the Laboratory, the Information Systems Technology Group is engaged in a wide range of information-processing-related projects, including information assurance and cyber security. The Group’s work ranges from detecting and interpreting attacks against large-scale network infrastructures to evaluating the use of mitigation tools in many different environments. Researchers perform static and dynamic analysis of software to discover vulnerabilities, analyze and model computer networks attacks and potential propagation vectors, correlate and prioritize alerts from network security devices, and design and develop practical cryptographic protocols and approaches.
Member Name: MITRE Corporation
URL: http://www.mitre.org/ Member Profile: The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors' critical needs.
Member Name: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Acronym: PNNL
URL: http://www.pnl.gov/ Member Profile: Located in Richland, Washington, Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of nine U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. In addition to providing expertise in the areas of environmental science, health, and energy, PNNL has a long history of research and development in the areas of information analysis and cyber security. Actively engaged in efforts to prevent and counteract threats to our the information infrastructure, PNNL researchers are developing ways to strengthen the nation’s computing assets. Specifically, the laboratory’s cyber security efforts are focused on: responding to the unforeseen, defending against predicted attacks, and building protections for its internal and external client's computer systems.
Member Name: Sandia National Laboratories
URL: http://www.sandia.gov/ Member Profile: Since 1949, Sandia National Laboratories has developed science-based technologies that support our national security. Sandia is a government-owned/contractor operated (GOCO) facility. Lockheed Martin manages Sandia for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
Member Name: School of Informatics
Institutional Affiliation: Indiana University
URL: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/ Member Profile: The Indiana University School of Informatics has set as its goal to be nationally recognized as the foremost in the country for excellence and leadership in Informatics programs, including undergraduate and graduate education, research, placement and outreach. We believe there is great need and opportunity for professionals trained in state-of-the-art information technology and science with an emphasis on creative human applications. There is an urgent need in our society for graduates with education and experience in informatics, particularly with interdisciplinary skills. The School of Informatics will be foremost in the country to graduate professionals with formal preparation in information technology with subject area expertise.
Member Name: SRI International
URL: http://www.sri.com/ Member Profile: SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute conducting contract research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. SRI also brings its innovations to the marketplace by licensing its technologies and creating new ventures.
Member Name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Acronym: UMass
URL: http://www.umass.edu Member Profile: UMass Amherst augments and complement the I3P research initiatives in security. Our most active research programs include disruption tolerant networks (DTNs), computer and network forensics, database privacy and information disclosure, and RFID security and privacy. They have deployed a live, working DTN on 40 buses covering 150 square miles around Amherst (http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/dome/). Their DTN efforts would greatly complement the I3P initiative in Process Control Systems. UMass’ research in database privacy and RFID security is of great importance to society, government, defense, industry, and academia and brings a new perspectives to the I3P. UMass leads the multi-institution RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy (www.rfid-cusp.org), whose members have been featured in the New York Times and given dozens of talks to influential decision makers around the world. On the educational front, UMass Amherst offers several core courses with emphasis on Information Assurance.
Member Name: University of Virginia
Acronym: UVA
URL: http://www.virginia.edu/ Member Profile: The Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems was founded by the University of Virginia in 1987 as a University-wide resource. It develops theory, methodology, and technology to assist in the management of risk for a variety of engineering systems. Working closely with faculty and students at the Center, industry and government sponsors of research contribute their unique strengths and interests. The Center's areas of expertise include risk modeling, assessment, and management.
