UTD Home


CSEPI Home

Overview
Research
Training
People
Newsletters
Press Releases
Events
Site Map

IA Program
CSRC Center
GbIAC Center
EPC Center

Information Assurance Program

     

UT Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science is committed to an initiative in Information Assurance (IA).  This includes enhanced research in security assurance and intelligent network technology to reduce cyber-threats and safeguard the nation’s information assets. In addition, we are providing more students and the community with IA education and training.

Professor Gopal Gupta of the Computer Science Department was appointed head of the Jonsson School's IA Program, which involves coordination with faculty and staff to continue development of a pervasive IA program on an on-going basis.

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, a leading expert in information security, has joined UT Dallas as director of the CyberSecurity Research Center and a professor of computer science in the Jonsson School.

 

UT Dallas received certifications from the NSA's IA Courseware Evaluation Program. 

The Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) and The National Security Agency (NSA) certify that UT Dallas offers a set of courseware that has been reviewed by National Level IA Subject Matter Experts and determined to meet National Training Standard for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals, CNSS National Standards 4011, 4012, and 4013.

 2004 CNSS Cert Award

 
Headlines ...
UT Dallas designated as National Canter of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) for years 2008-2013

UT Dallas hosted the 12th annual National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education on June 2-6, 2008

CSEPI hosted InfraGard General Meeting: Cyber Crime

UT Dallas redesignated as National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE) for years 2007-2012

ECS School offers a Minor in Information Assurance

UT Dallas was designated as a National CAEIAE for 2004-2007

UT Dallas "World Class" Security Analysis & Information Assurance Lab

UT Dallas grants certificates in Information Assurance

North Texas Homeland Security Symposium May 17, 2005

First UT Dallas Cyber Security Symposium April, 2005

Distinguished Lecturer Series 2005 about Cyber Security at UT Dallas

UT Dallas received $50,000 Grant Award from AT&T Foundation for Cyber Security Research

Minor in Information Assurance

A minor in IA requires 33 credit hours earned through the following courses:

  • CS 1337 Computer Science I

  • CS 2305 Discrete Mathematics for Computing I

  • CS 2336 Computer Science II C

  • CS 3305 Discrete Mathematics for Computing II

  • CS/SE 3345 Data Structures and Introduction to Algorithmic Analysis

  • CS/SE 4347 Database Systems

  • CS/SE 4348 Operating Systems Concepts

  • CS 4389 Data and Applications Security

  • CS 4393 Computer and Network Security

  • CS 4398 Digital Forensics

Undergraduate Certificate in Information Assurance
Undergraduate Certificate in IA can be obtained by completing the following 9 credit hours (as well as any required prerequisites):

This certificate is intended for those individuals who are working in the industry and who already have background similar to a BS-CS degree. CS and SE majors that complete the required classes, as well as students that complete the Minor in Information Assurance will be awarded certificates in Information Assurance.

 

Graduate Certificate in Information Assurance

Graduate Certificate with a concentration in IA will be granted by the UT Dallas CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute to graduate students completing the following course of study (15 credit hours). All required courses must be taken at UT Dallas.

  • Two IA core courses (6 credit hours) and three IA-enhanced courses (9 credit hours)  or
  • Three IA core courses (9 credit hours) and two IA-enhanced courses (6 credit hours)   or
  • Four IA core courses (12 credit hours) and one IA-enhanced course (3 credit hours)
A Sampling of UT Dallas IA-related Courses Offering
Graduate IA Core Courses
CS 6324 Information Security   CS 6v81 Data and Applications Security
CS 6v81 Privacy in Computing   CS 6377 Introduction to Cryptography
CS 6v81 Language-based Security   CS 7301 Data Mining and Applications 
Graduate IA-Enhanced Courses
CS 6352 Performance of Computer Systems and Networks   CS 6378 Advanced Operating Systems
CS 6V81-581 Data Mining and Multimedia   CS 6368 Telecommunication Network Management
CS 6370 Information Systems Engineering   CS 6390 Advanced Computer Networks
CS 6392 Mobile Computing Systems   AIM 6349 Information Technology Strategy and Control
EE 6345 Engineering of Packet-Switched Networks   MAS 6V10 Information Technology Security and Audit
UT Dallas Published Papers on IA topics

UT Dallas professors and students are active in IA practice and research, and contribute to IA literature.  Here are examples of UT Dallas published papers on IA topics.

Latifur Khan, Mamoun Awad, and Qing Chen, “Effective Intrusion Detection Using Support Vector Machines” In Proc. of 2004 South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS), Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 2004 (2004), Page 8.

Li Liu, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, and Chris Clifton, “ A Link-based Privacy Preserving Data Mining Framework ” In Proc. of 2005 South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS '05), Austin, Texas, April 2005 (2005), Page 16.

G.L. Song, K. Zhang, B. Thuraisingham, and J. Cao, Towards Access Control for Visual Web Model Management, Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'05), Hong Kong, China, 29 March - 1 April 2005, IEEE CS Press, 722-727.

I. Youn, C. Farkas, B. Thuraisingham, “Multilevel Secure Teleconferencing over Public Switched Telephone Network,” accepted for IFIP 19th WG 11.3 working conference on Data and Application Security, 2005

G.L. Song, K. Zhang, B. Thuraisingham, and J. Kong, Secure Model Management Operations for the Web, In: S. Jajodia and D. Wijesekera (Eds.) Data and Application Security XIX - Proc. 19th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Storrs, USA, 7-10 August 2005, LNCS 3654, Springer-Verlag, 237-251.59.

Murat Kantarcioglu and Chris Clifton, "Security Issues in Querying Encrypted Data" 19th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Database and Applications Security, 2005

Murat Kantarcioglu and Chris Clifton, Privacy Preserving Data Mining of Association Rules on Horizontally Partitioned Data, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(9): 1026-1037 (2004), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA.

D. Wang, F.B. Bastani, and I.-L. Yen, "Automated aspect-oriented decomposition of process-control systems for ultra-high dependability assurance," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 9, Sep. 2005, pp. 713-732.

An adaptive multiparty protocol for secure data protection. Q. Ma, I.-L. Yen, W. Hao, M. Tu, and F.B. Bastani. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems Fukuoka, Japan: (July 2005) 43-49

M. Tu, P. Li, Q. Ma I.-L. Yen, and F.B. Bastani, "On the optimal placement of secure data objects over internet," Proceedings of IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Denver, Colorado: (April 2005)

Srnivasan Raghunathan, Birendra Mishra and Huseyin Cavusoglu, “The Value of Intrusion Detection Systems in IT Security Architecture,” Information Systems Research, Forthcoming, 2005.

Ryan Layfield, Latifur Khan, and Bhavani Thuraisingham, “ Link Analysis of Social Activity and Suspicious Topic Propagation ” In Proc. of 2005 South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS '05), Austin, Texas, April 2005, Page 17.

Gal Lavee, Lei Wang, Latifur Khan, and Bhavani Thuraisingham, " Suspicious Event Detection in Surveillance Video ” In Proc. of 2005 South Central Information Security Symposium (SCISS '05), Austin, Texas, April 2005, Page 18.

Srinivasan Raghunathan, Hasan Cavusoglu and Huseyin Cavusoglu, “Economics of IT Security Management: Four Improvements to Current Security Practices,” Communications of the AIS, Forthcoming, 2004.

Srinivasan Raghunathan, Birendra Mishra and Huseyin Cavusoglu, “The Effect of Internet Security Breach Announcements on Market Value: Capital Market Reactions for Breached Firms and Internet Security Developers,” Journal of Electronic Commerce, Forthcoming 2004.

W. T. Yue, M. Çakanyildirim, Y. U. Ryu and D. Liu, “IT Security Risk Management under Network Effects and Layered Protection Strategy,” in Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics, University of Arizona, 2004.

Kamil Sarac, "SSM-Based Receiver-Controlled Communication Service in the Internet," Proceedings of South Central Information Security Symposium, Denton, TX, April 2003.

Latifur Khan, "Intrusion Detection Using Clustering Approaches," Proceedings of South Central Information Security Symposium, Denton, TX, April 2003.

Bharat Goyal, Sriranjani Sitaraman, N. Mittal, and S. Venkatesan, "A Partial Order Approach to Detect Race Condition Attacks," Proceedings of South Central Information Security Symposium, Denton, TX, April 2003.

Zili Shao, Qingfeng Zhuge, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, "Defending Embedded Systems Against Buffer Overflow via Hardware/Software," Proceedings of South Central Information Security Symposium, Denton, TX, April 2003.

S. Venkatesan, B. Goyal, and S. Sitaraman, "A Unified Approach to Detecting Binding Based Race Condition Attacks," Proceedings of International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS03), Miami, Florida, September 2003 (to appear).

S. Vekatesan, Bharat Goyal, Neeraj Mittal, and Sriranjani Sitaraman, "Techniques to Tackle Vulnerabilities Caused By Lack of Mutual Exclusion," Proceedings of Texas Workshop on Security of Information Systems, College Station, TX, April 2003.

Qingkai Ma, Wei Hao, Wei Li, Manghui Tu, and I-Ling Yen, "PeAgent - A mobile agent system to support secure Internet and Web applications," Proc. CompSAC, Workshop on Web Based Systems and Applications, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 2003.

Farokh B. Bastani, Simeon Ntafos, I-Ling Yen, E. Douglas Harris, Richard R. Morrow, Raymond Paul, "A high-assurance measurement repository system," IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, Nov. 2000.

Qingkai Ma, Wei Hao, I-Ling Yen, and Farokh Bastani, "Full Power Secure Computation for Agent Privacy Protection," submitted to Journal of Computer Security.

Farokh B. Bastani, Victor L. Winter, and I-Ling Yen, "Dependability of relational safety-critical programs," IEEE Intl. Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Boca Raton, Florida, Nov. 1999.

Sung Kim, Farokh B. Bastani, I-Ling Yen, and Ing-Ray Chen, "High-assurance synthesis of security services from basic microservices," Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Software Reliability Eng. (ISSRE), Denver, Colorado, Nov. 2003.

Raymond A. Paul, Farokh Bastani, I-Ling Yen, Venkata U.B. Challagulla, "Defect-based reliability analysis for mission-critical software," IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 2000.

UT Dallas Ph.D. Dissertations on IA topics

Huseyin Cavusoglu, "Economics of Information Technology Security," graduated 2003.

Qingkai Ma, "Secure and Survivable Mobile Agent Systems," graduated 2004.

Dongfeng Wang, "Systematic Development of Process-Control Systems for Ultra-High Dependability Assurance Based on Independently Developable End-User Assessable Logical Aspects," graduated 2005.

Zili Shao, "High Performance, Low Power and Secure Embedded Systems," graduated 2005.

Mamoun Adel Awad, "Effective Data Mining for Intrusion Detection and WWW Prediction Applications," graduated 2006.

Srikant Kuppa, "Characterizing the Expected Performance of IEEE 802.11 DCF and its QOS Enhancements," graduated 2006.

Mansoor Mohsin, "Reliable Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," graduated 2006.

Katrina Riehl, "Data Mining Logic Explanations from Numerical Data," graduated 2006.

Sriranjani Sitaraman, "Algorithms to Enable Forensic Analysis of Computer and Network Intrusions," graduated 2006.

Hulisi Ogut, "Information Technology Security Risk Management," graduated 2006.

Venkata Challagulla, "A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Dynamic Reliability Assessment of Mission Critical Software Systems," graduated 2007.

Sathya Peri, "Efficient Algorithms for Monitoring Distributed Systems," graduated 2007.

Chao Gong, "Practical and Scalable Deployment of Dos Defense Measures in the Internet," graduated 2007.

Survey of Research and Education in Digital Forensics and Information Assurance
The National White Color Crime Center (NW3C), with its goals in bringing together academic institutions across our nation for the purpose of collaborating on research projects and the development of academic curriculum in the areas of computer crime and forensics, requested Dr. E. Douglas Harris, Associate Dean and Research Professor of UT Dallas Erik Jonsson School and Executive Director of UT Dallas CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute, to continue participation in fostering and establishment of an academic consortium. Through the leadership, foresight, and determination of Dr. Harris, UT Dallas team has put together a survey of education and research in Digital Forensics and Information Assurance.  The final result of this survey will be a great reference document for the NW3C and universities doing research and education in the areas of Network Security, Digital Forensics and Information Assurance.  Click HERE to view the survey result.
Sponsored Research Agreement with QuEST Forum
The Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunications (QuEST) Forum signed a 6-year contract agreement (2007-2012) to sponsor UT Dallas CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute in research and development of Information Security and Quality Management System.  UT Dallas will provide the primary subject matter experts for the continued research, development and operations of the QuEST Forum Information System, which consists of three systems: Registration Management System (RMS), Measurements Repository System (MRS), and Web System.
UT Dallas Contacts

To find out more information about the UT Dallas CyberSecurity & Emergency Preparedness Institute, please contact:

Dr. E. Douglas Harris, Associate Dean and Research Professor

Executive Director, CyberSecurity & Emergency Preparedness Institute

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas

800 W. Campbell Road

M/S WT-11

Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

Phones: 972-883-2631

Fax: 972-883-4441

Email: edh@utdallas.edu

To find out more information about the Erik Jonsson School's Information Assurance Program, please contact:

Dr. Gopal Gupta, Professor

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas

800 W. Campbell Road

M/S EC-31

Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

Phone: 972-883-4107

Fax: 972-883-2349

Email: gupta@utdallas.edu

To find out more information about the Information Security at UT Dallas , please contact:

Ms. Leah Teutsch

Chief Information Security Officer

Director, Information Security

Phone: 972-883-6855

Email: teutsch@utdallas.edu

UT Dallas Web Sites
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science (ECS)   CyberSecurity & Emergency Preparedness Institute
School of Management   Shared Faculty - Hieu Vu
McDermott Library   Declared Concentrations
Distance Learning - CS/EE Online   Information Security Office
ECS Course Learning Objectives - Undergraduate Courses   UT Dallas Training Post
Information Assurance Related Links
National INFOSEC Education and Training Program   Information Assurance Scholarship Program
DOD Biometrics   Colloquium for Information System Security Education
Top 100 Network Security Tools   NIST Computer Security Resource Center
SANS Institute   National Science Foundation (NSF)
An Inventory of Standards Affecting Security   NIST Information Technology Laboratory
National Security Institute's Security Resource Net   The Internet Engineering Task Force
SecurNet Security References   Strategic Information Warfare and Defense
SecurityFocus.com   NSA Security-Enhanced Linux
Interagency OPSEC Support Staff   NSA Information Assurance Research


UT Dallas Homepage | ECS Homepage | CyberSecurity & Emergency Preparedness Institute
Copyright © 2008 CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute
Updated: Friday, 11 April 2008
| Contact: btt021000@utdallas.edu