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."
GLOBAL perspective
CyLab 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.
fast facts
CyLab was founded in 2003 and is one of the largest university-based cybersecurity research and education centers in the U.S. Here are some quick facts - CyLab is:
- A National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberTrust Center
- Affiliated with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
- A key partner in NSF-funded Center for Team Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology
- A National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education
featured events
January 12: SEMINAR (CIC Bldg., Pittsburgh, PA)
Identity-Based Key Exchange Protocols
Rosario Gennaro, Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
January 19: SEMINAR (CIC Bldg., Pittsburgh, PA)
Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games
Nicolas Christin, Associate Director, INI; Systems Scientist, CyLab
January 23: SEMINAR (CIC Bldg., Pittsburgh, PA)
Promoting Online Safety: Health Communication Paradigms for Cyber-Security
Robert LaRose, Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University
January 26: SEMINAR (CIC Bldg., Pittsburgh, PA)
CyLab Business Risks Forum : Electronic Crime Ecosystem: Evolution from Cold War to Cold Cash
Mike Susong, Vice President for Intelligence Operations, iSIGHT Partners
January 26-30: ISRI Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA
Mobile and Pervasive Computing Services for Technology Executives
resources
Governance of Enterprise Security Report
Management and Education of the Risk of Insider Threats (MERIT)
industry news from cnet.com