cylab chronicles

Wombat - The Latest CyLab Success Story

posted by Richard Power

"As demand for our solutions continued to increase, we also came to realize that, as a university, we would only be able to go so far in distributing and maintaining our solutions. So the path forward was fairly clear and Wombat was eventually launched earlier this year. As a commercial entity, we have gained further visibility and have daily opportunities to talk to customer organizations and to closely monitor phishing attacks as they continue to evolve."

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GLOBAL perspective

Global PerspectiveCyLab East and West

posted by Nichole Dwyer
A connected and global presence, CyLab has research and education centers in Greece, Portugal, Japan, Taiwan and Silicon Valley. Throughout the year, Global Perspectives will give you a window on current happenings around the world.

To begin our journey, let’s make a brief fly-over of CyLab’s centers around the world. Read more...

Making headlines

CMU Students Design Equipment that Senses Football Moves - December 17, 2008
CyLab Researchers are equipping gloves and a football with remote sensing technology to measure everything from grip and trajectory to speed and position.

CERT Podcast Series: Climate Change, Implications for Information Technology and Security - December 9, 2008
CERT's Julia Allen interviews CyLab Distinguished Fellow Richard Power on Climate Change and what security professionals need to be addressing to cope with it as a business risk

IT security risks dismissed by boards, survey finds - December 4, 2008
Information Security Magazine on CyLab's Governance of Enterprise Security Survey

To Govern or Not to Govern - December 2, 2008
CyLab's Distinguished Fellow Richard Power discusses "CyLab study highlights gaps in Board oversight of security and privacy."

TSA's 'behavior detection' leads to few arrests - November 17, 2008
"That's an awful lot of people being pulled aside and inconvenienced," said Stephen Fienberg, a professor of statistics and CyLab, who studied the TSA program and other counterterrorism efforts. "I think it's a sham. We have no evidence it works."

Tackling the Insider Threat - November 6, 2008
Dawn Cappelli, a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in CERT, talk to Bank Info Security about the growing criminal activity of insider threats.

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