Information Assurance Research and Training
at Iowa State University
(ISU)Johnny Wong
Information Assurance Center (IAC)
www.iac.iastate.edu
Information Assurance Center
www.iac.iastate.edu
Iowa State University: Birthplace of the Digital Computer
Professor John Vincent Atanasoff
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
ISU Information
• 150 Years old
• 23rd in number of patents
• 2nd among universities in R&D 100 Awards
• 28,000 students
– 22,500 undergrads, 5,000 graduate students, 500 professional students
• 3 I/U CRC centers (PSERC, CNDE, CIP)
• Over $300 million in sponsored funding
A partnership between industry, academia, and government working
today to solve the security problems of tomorrow
Center for Information Protection• ISU is certified as NSA Center of Academic
Excellence (CAE) in IA both in Education (Year 1999) and Research (Year 2009), a chartered CAE school.
• An NSF I/U CRC with a focus on information protection
• The need for information protection is well documented
• Primary mission is to create a linkage between security research and organizations providing the critical cyber infrastructure.
Funded Projects (2006)Evaluation of learning Algorithms for Egress Filtering
DILON: Detecting Intrusions at Layer OneSAVANT: Security Analysis using Visualization of Network TopologyIntegrating Process Modeling with ITAudit Control Systems for Regulatory Compliance
Secure and Dependable Information Delivery in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor NetworksIntrusion Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc NetworksSpecification-guided Misuse and Anomaly Intrusion Detection
Funded Projects (2007)From Reality to Security TestbedsBootstrapping trust in Service-Oriented Architectures
Identity Theft Awareness Research, Evaluation and Education DeliveryIntrusion Detection & Response SystemsSecurity & Privacy Mechanisms for Wireless Mesh Networks
Architectural Approaches to Embedded Program Flow ProtectionIdentity Disclosure Protection: A Data Reconstruction Approach for Preserving Privacy in Data Mining
Funded Projects (2008)Privacy-Preserving Reasoning
Formal Approach for Intrusion Detection and Response Systems
Modeling Secure Web Services with AADL (Architecture Analysis & Design Language)
ID Theft Awareness Research, Evaluation, and Education Delivery
Modeling Paradigms for Security and Dependability in Policy-based Systems
Acceleration and Efficiency Exploration of Cryptographic Kernels on Multi-Core Processing Platforms
Funded Projects (2009)
Tamper-proof and Privacy Preserving Schemes for Smart Cards
Secrecy-Preserving Reasoning
Response to Collaborative Attacks against Network Vulnerability
ISEAGE Test-bed usage
Information Assurance (IA) Training at ISU
• Multidisciplinary Research Program (25 faculty)
• Graduate education
– Masters of Science in Information Assurance (70 students ½ off campus)
– MS programs specializing in IA in: CprE, CS, Math, PolySci, and MIS
– PhD programs specializing in IA: CprE and CS
– Graduate Certificate Program
• Major Lab Facilities
• Outreach efforts: seminars and short courses to state agencies and industry; security awareness integrated in other curricula; significant inter-University projects
IA Courses
CprE 530: Computer Network ProtocolsCprE 531: Computer System SecurityCprE 532: Information WarfareCprE/533: CryptographyCprE 534: Legal & Ethical Issues in SecurityCprE 535: Data HidingCprE 536: Computer and Network ForensicsCprE 537: Security in Wireless CommunicationsCprE 632: Capstone course in IAComS 586: Advanced Network ArchitecturesComS 552: Operating Systems: Advanced Concepts
Faculty Research AreasComputer Engineering and Computer Science
Security of wireless systems; data mining; mobile agents, DoS attacks; steganography; vulnerability taxonomies; intelligent agents; AI applied to IDS; privacy and anominity; trace back of attacks; battlefield mobile tactical wireless networks; privacy-preserving access of tactical sensor networks; privacy-preserving authentication and access control techniques for smart card; computer security curriculum development
Management Information Systems
Fraud and audit management; intrusion detection; computer networks, E-Commerce
Political Science
IT budgeting; criminal justice; science & technology public policy; politics of technology change; Cyber politics; constitutional law, ethics, and public policy
Mathematics
Cryptography
College of Education
Leadership training; faculty in-service program (Project LEARN)
• Creation of a simulated Internet for researching, designing, and testing cyber defense mechanisms
• Allow real attacks to be played out against systems
• Staff trained on both attack and defense methods
Uses of ISEAGE
• Security System Modeling
• Cyber Physical modeling
• Cyber Infrastructure modeling
• Education and Training
• Research
• Outreach– Cyber Defense Competitions
CIP Access to ISEAGE
• Product testing using ISEAGE network testbed
• ISEAGE students perform the testing• Member companies propose the product
types to be tested and any specific test criteria
• Distribution of results will be limited to CIP members unless the members decide to release the findings
SNAIRSNAIR: Securing Networks through Attribution & Intrusion Research Lab
• Faculty– Thomas E. Daniels,
Director– Julie Dickerson, Yong
Guan, Steve Russell, Mani Mina
• A laboratory in the ISU Information Assurance Center
• Affiliate of the ISU High Speed Systems Engineering Lab
• Equipment– 3 Mobile network
testbeds for network attribution
– Sun POD Cluster– 40+ PC’s– 0.5 TB Data Server– Office space for 10 full
time research assistants
– Dedicated private firewalled network
INSINS: Innovative Networking and Systems Lab
• Faculty– Johnny Wong, Wensheng
Zhang, Ying Cai, Wallapak Tavanapong, Andrew Miner, Luan Lu, Carl Chang, Hen-I Yang
• A laboratory in the ISU Computer Science Department
• Affiliate with the ISU CCILD (Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery, led by Professor Vasant Honavar)
• Equipment– Wireless Mobile ad hoc
network test-beds– Smart Home facilities– Wireless Sensor
Networks facilities– Multiple sensors and
actuators devices– 50+ PC’s– Office space for 20 full
time undergraduate and graduate research assistants
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