Security Informatics
The Security Informatics track of the IST Ph.D. program seeks to improve the cyber security of individuals and organizations by creating innovative solutions for detecting and removing cyber threats, recovering from cyber attacks, protecting privacy, enhancing trust, and mitigating risks.
Research Centers and Labs
- Center for Cyber Security, Information Privacy, and Trust
- Cyber Security Lab
- RFID Lab
- Privacy Assurance Laboratory
- Penn State Information, Knowledge, and Web group (PIKE)
- Center for Network-centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF)
- International Center for the Study of Terrorism
- Institute for CyberScience
Faculty Reserach/Contact Information
- MURI: Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward Correction (Peng Liu)
- NSF TC-M: Towards Self-Protecting Data Centers: A Systematic Approach (Peng Liu)
- NSF CT-M: Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks (Anna Squicciarini)
- NSF CT-ER: Privacy Assurance in Location-based Services: Integrating Economic Exchange and Social Justice Perspectives (Heng Xu)
- NSF CAREER: Combating Worm Propagation in Emergent Networks (Sencun Zhu)
- RFID in Smart Space for Aging in Place (Chao-Hsien Chu)
- DHS Center for Border Security and Immigration (Dave Hall and Will McGill)
- Criteria and Procedures for Adjudicating Analytic Confidence Levels for Estimative Judgments (Will McGill)
- Center of Academic Excellence for Intelligence Community (Henry C. Foley)
Interdisciplinary Research
- ARO MURI: Computer-aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness (Peng Liu, Michael McNeese,John Yen, and David Hall)
- Immersive Security Education Environment (I-SEE) Using Second Life (Angsana Techatassanasoontorn,Dongwon Lee, and Jungwoo Ryoo)
- Extreme Events Simulation (David Hall, Michael McNeese, and Andrea Tapia)
- Mimicry, Deception and Violence: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Social, Psychological and Cultural Dynamics in Terrorist Movements (John Horgan, Luke Zhang, and Prasenjit Mitra)
- Relational Network Analysis and Complexity for WMD Intention Discovery (Frank Ritter, Peng Liu, Prasenjit Mitra, Derek Kreager, and John Horgan)
Ph.D. Thesis Publications
- "A Study of Selected Security Issues in Wireless Networks," Qijun Gu (Assistant Professor, Texas State University), 2005.
- "Modeling and Evaluating the Survivability of an Intrusion Tolerant Database System," Hai Wang (Assistant Professor, Penn State Worthington Scranton), 2007.
- "XML Access Control in Native and RDBMS-Supported XML Databases," Bo Luo (Assistant Professor, University of Kansas), 2008.
