Current Status

• A leading information security research center
• Recognized as NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, 1999-2002, 2002-2005, 2005-2008
• Committee on National Security Systems and the National Security Agency certified that our courses meet National Training Standard 4011, 4012, and 4013 for academic years 2002–2005, 2005-2007
• Selected as a participant in the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program, 2001-present
• Established partnership with National Defense University Information Resource Management College

Research Topics

• Vulnerability assessment and exploit analysis
• Automated penetration testing
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Auditing, audit log analysis, data mining
• Flexible authorization management system
• Role-based access control
• Trust management
• Secure key management
• Digital rights management
• Fast and secure cryptography implementations
• Critical infrastructure protection
• High assurance security architectures
• Steganography and digital watermarking
• Protection from malicious code
• Ad hoc, wireless networks
• Sensor networks