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Following are news items from the I3P Administrative Office, our Consortium members, and announcements of recent publications produced under the auspices of the I3P. Please also see the I3P Publications page for a complete listing of our publications.

July 28, 2007: Matthew A. Bishop Identifies Security Flaws in Electronic Voting Systems: Matthew A. Bishop, professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis and a member of the I3P Executive Committee, has identified major security flaws in electronic voting systems.; The I3P has selected Kenneth Crowther (University of Virginia), Ruy DeOliveria (Purdue University), and Sean Peisert (University of California, Davis) as the 2007-2008 I3P Post-Doctoral Fellows. To learn more about the Fellows and their projects, please follow the link provided.
April 19, 2007: Dart. cyber security earns a $12M grant: Article in Connecticut Valley Spectator. v. 6, issue 16 (April 19, 2007)p. A7
April 13, 2007: Dartmouth receives award for cyber security studies: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently approved an $11.7 million funding increase for Dartmouth's Cyber Security Collaboration and Information Sharing Project. The award, which will be divided between two Dartmouth institutes, will provide $8.7 million to the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) and $3 million to the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS).
March 27, 2007: Researchers talk cyber security at conference: More than 60 researchers from 12 different countries gathered at Dartmouth for a three-day academic conference on cyber security last week. The brand-new event gave attendees the opportunity to review papers and listen to speakers discuss the need to protect critical computer systems from cyber-terrorism.- article from the The Dartmouth.
March 21, 2007: VPR Interview with Sy Goodman and Charles Palmer: This week, the world's leading experts in electronic information are meeting at Dartmouth to discuss the critical infrastructure that keeps these systems working. We talk about how vulnerabilities can affect everything from banking to transportation to oil pipelines, and what researchers say are the new frontiers in protecting the world's information infrastructure. This is an interview with Sy Goodman -I3P Member representative from Georgia Tech, and Charles Palmer- I3P Research Director.
March 21, 2007: Protecting the world's critical infrastructures: On Monday, March 19, more than 60 leading researchers from around the world will convene on Dartmouth's campus for an intense three-day conference to address growing security concerns facing critical infrastructures, notably the electronic communications networks and physical systems on which most nations depend.
January 29, 2007: IBM security and privacy researcher joins Dartmouth Research Group: In early January, Charles C. Palmer, Chief Technology Officer of Security and Privacy at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, was named Director of Research for Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.
January 21, 2007: PROTECTING CRITICAL PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS-Workshop to address urgent security needs facing the oil and gas industry: To specifically address the urgent need for security technologies in the oil and gas industry, the I3P announced today that it will hold a two-day workshop in Houston, Texas on February 15 and 16, 2007.
October 16, 2006: Oil & Gas Journal Publishes Article on I3P PCS Workshop: SPECIAL REPORT: Workshops identify threats to process control systems Recent industry workshops have identified the issues of cyber and physical security risks to process control systems (PCS). This article was published in Oil & Gas Journal- Vol. 104, Issue 38 (Oct. 9, 2006), Please note: You must be a subscriber to read the full article.
October 11, 2006: I3P 2007 Post-Doc Fellowship Call is launched: The I3P has announced a preliminary call for I3P 2007 Post-Doc Fellowship applications.
October 11, 2006: Order I3P Publications Online: With the opening of the I3P's new website, the public may order specific I3P publications online.
September 28, 2006: I3P Sponsors Control Systems Security Workshop: February 15, 2007 - Houston, TX If you want to learn about cutting-edge findings and solutions for securing oil and gas control systems against cyber attacks, then you need to put this event on your calendar. Don't miss this new opportunity to hear about the latest research results from the I3P team! The previous I3P workshop held in June 2006 in California attracted great attendance and interest from oil and gas companies and their control system vendors and security providers. At this follow-up event in Houston on February 15, 2007, the I3P team will present and demonstrate their latest results and tools. This time the I3P is coming to the home of America 's oil and gas industry to further reach out to and support this critical infrastructure industry. The workshop will be held at the Sheraton Houston Brookhollow Hotel. More details about the event, including on-line registration, will become available here by November 15, 2006. We are looking forward to seeing you in Houston in February! For questions or more information, please contact: Eric Goetz, I3P Assistant Director for Research and Analysis (603) 646 0692
May 10, 2006: Workshop to focus on infrastructure protection for oil & gas industry: Workshop to focus on infrastructure protection for oil & gas industry I3P to showcase initial results of $8.5 million research and technology development initiative LA JOLLA, CALIF.-- Process control systems security for the oil and gas industry is the topic of a workshop to be conducted by the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection Thursday, June 8, in conjunction with the spring meeting of the Process Controls System Forum June 6-7 in La Jolla, Calif. Known as I3P, the institute is offering the workshop as part of an $8.5-million research initiative to help protect process control systems for the oil and gas industry and other critical infrastructure sectors. The program will demonstrate the initiative's initial results and will demonstrate new tools and technologies that industry can use to help secure their process control systems. The workshop also will provide a forum for practitioners to define industry requirements, help guide future research efforts and develop opportunities for technology transfer. Attendance is free with registration to the PCSF meeting. One-day registration for June 8 is $100. See the I3P web site http://www.thei3p.org/scada/workshop2/ for details. The workshop is designed for control systems engineers, operators and managers, including chief information, security, and information security officers; control systems security experts from government, industry associations and academia; and vendors of control systems, security systems and services, information technology and communications for the oil and gas sector. The research initiative began in spring 2005 and is being conducted by a team of 10 I3P member institutions. There are several objectives: understand and characterize vulnerabilities and threats affecting process control systems; develop metrics and models for the assessment and management of control systems security; and develop tools and technologies to enable next-generation control systems with built-in security. The I3P is a consortium of academic institutions, federally funded laboratories and non-profit organizations that brings together experts to identify and help mitigate threats aimed at the U.S. information infrastructure. The consortium is managed by Dartmouth College and funded by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The research team includes security specialists from Dartmouth College, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the MITRE Corporation, New York University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, SRI International, the University of Tulsa and the University of Virginia. Release date: May 9, 2006 CONTACTS Judith Graybeal Media Relations Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (509) 375-4351 graybeal@pnl.gov Susan Knapp Public Affairs Dartmouth College (603) 646-3661 Susan.E.Knapp@Dartmouth.edu
January 24, 2006: Three New I3P Research Reports Available: The I3P recently released three new reports as part of their Research Report series. The reports are Research Report no. 3 "Process Control System Security Technical Risk Assessment : Analysis of Problem Domain"; Research Report no. 4 "Requirements for Cross Domain Information Sharing Within SCADA Environments (Including Use Cases)"; and Research Report no. 5 "I3P Economics Project Workshop Report". Links to these reports are available on the I3P Publications page.
January 9, 2006: Growing Threat: Gas, Oil Firms Beefing up Their Cyber Security: The I3P SCADA Project was described on page 6 of the January 9, 2006 issue of Natural Gas Week. This article is "pay-for-view" and may be accessed by searching 'I3P' at the Energy Intelligence site.
January 5, 2006: I3P Research Fellowships - 2006 Call for Proposals: Program Description - The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) seeks to advance its national research agenda through a research fellowship program. The I3P fellowship program helps to build a nationwide cadre of investigators focused on critical research challenges and provides expanded research opportunities at I3P Consortium member institutions.
November 28, 2005: A Crime Buster for Cyberspace: An interview with Marcus Sachs (SRI International)is the cover story in the November 2005 issue of SC Magazine.
November 21, 2005: " Securing Control Systems in the Oil and Gas Infrastructure: The I3P SCADA Security Research Project": Ulf Lindqvist (SRI International) was the speaker at a recent University of California, Berkeley-Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) seminar. His presentation identified some cyber security concerns for the industry, provided an overview of the I3P research program and how it relates to other efforts in this area, and highlighted some specific tools and technologies under development by the I3P SCADA research team.
November 3, 2005: The I3P Initiative : Improving Control Systems Security in the Oil & Gas Industry: Ben Cook (Sandia National Lab) and Ulf Lindqvist (SRI International) gave a presentation at the recent NPRA Conference- Process Control Session.
October 18, 2005: Process Control Systems Security: National Cyber Infrastructure Bulletin; no. 1 (Oct. 2005) A June 2005 I3P workshop examined the security of process control systems in the oil and gas industry. Participants included representatives from leading oil and gas companies, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and IT vendors, and government experts and researchers. The bulletin covers the major findings from the workshop.
August 29, 2005: Spafford Says National Cyber Security Spending Must Increase (Red Herring Magazine): Eugene Spafford, executive director of CERIAS at Purdue, in IEEE-sponsored briefing with members of Congress, warned that without increased funding for cybersecurity, growth in organized crime and identity theft could drain the economy. Spafford argued that it would take a major failure of critical computers nationwide to raise public support for better security. The event and Spafford's remarks were reported by both IEEE and the magazine Red Herring.