The Institute for Information Assurance (IIA) is an interdisciplinary effort between the College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Engineering. The major goal of the Institute is to develop new cross-disciplinary methodologies to provide robust and reliable transmission of physically distributed information.

Our multi-disciplinary team will pursue problems from multiple perspectives: (1) improving network security that spans multiple network communication layers, including sensors, and wireless devices, (2) providing information data integrity that addresses threats such as viruses and insider attacks, and (3) developing information infrastructure that considers both hardware and software system vulnerabilities.

The long term goals of the Institute include: providing technological advances to ensure information security within organizations, providing advisory services to organizations to maintain data integrity and security within their infrastructure, and producing professionals that are appropriately trained in current technologies to guard organizations against malicious attacks.