West Point's center for cyber security research, innovation and education.

The Information Technology and Operations Center (ITOC) is a research center in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy with a focus on information assurance, computer, and network security.

The mission of the ITOC is to educate and inspire cadets and faculty in the acquisition, use, management, and protection of information through innovative teaching, curriculum development, research, and outreach to Army, DoD, and federal agencies. The center is responsible for teaching and developing a variety of courses. Included in these courses is Information Assurance, Information Warfare, Host Forensics, and Network Forensics.

Some of the contributions the ITOC has made to the Information Assurance (IA) and Information Warfare (IW) fields are:

• 2006 U.S. Army Research and Development Achievement Award (only non-Army lab)
• Designated by NSA as a Center Of Academic Excellence in IA
• Created the Information Warfare Analysis and Research (IWAR) Laboratory
• Implemented a completely virtual information assurance student lab (VMware based)
• Developed the Cyber Defense Exercise between the 5 Service Academies
• Founded a Cadet IA and IW club for cadets (400+ participants) and Special Interest Group for Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC)
• Support Cadet Summer internships at DARPA, NSA, NRO, 1st IO Command, IA Directorate G6/CIO, and Army and DoD Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT), Regional CERTs, Microsoft, DOT&E