Center for Cyber Security Research 

The establishment of the Center for Cyber Security Research (CCSR) leverages the nationally recognized expertise of MU researchers in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Learning and Education, Journalism, and Health Informatics. Members of this diverse team have been addressing various basic research issues in cyber security, including information assurance, secure and forensic multimedia, home network and sensor network security, reliability and survivability of large scale distributed information systems, secure cross-institution resource sharing and collaboration, and application and software security. We will also address the application of cyber security technologies to secure tele-health, e-publishing, and e-learning. Some of these efforts have been supported by NSF and NIH. CCSR is intended to streamline our research and education effort in this critical area, to foster academic, industrial, and government laboratory participation in multidisciplinary cyber security research. Our long term goal is to develop a nationally recognized research and training program with substantial cyber security research capacity addressing the security requirements of homeland security, health informatics, and general e-commerce. CCSR will provide an excellent environment for BSIT students to receive cyber security training and to perform cyber security research.  To address the imminent needs of the security workforce, the center will build training and certifications programs for cyber security.

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