RESEARCH
AREAS OF RESEARCH
RESEARCH AREA: INFORMATION ASSURANCE
One US Military definition of Information Assurance (IA) Technology is "Information Operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation." At NSU, Information Assurance is a very active area of research spearheaded by Dr. Patrick and supported by a muli-million dollar grant from the Department of Defense.

Current projects include:
  1. Development of usable passwords (Cheryl Hinds)
  2. Using visualization to identify suspicious network traffic from sensor networks (May Hou)
  3. Developing an analytical tool for resolving signals from multiple security devices (Jonathan Graham)
  4. NSU Institute for Information Assurance and other research being done by Dr. Gregory Patrick
 
PEOPLE
Dr. Jonathan Graham...
   Associate Professor
   Ph.D., Computer Science,University of Idaho
Dr. George Harrison...
   Department Head
   Ph.D., University of Virginia
Ms. Cheryl Hinds...
   Instructor
   M.A. Computer and Information Systems, CUNY
Dr. Luay Wahsheh...
   Assistant Professor
   Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Idaho
 
RESEARCH/PROJECTS
Security Overhead in Wireless LANs
  Dr. Aftab Ahmad, Lakisha Dailey2004
 
PAPERS
Demystifying Distributed Computing (First of Three Article Series)2002
Tech Trend Notes , Spring 2002
  Gregory Patrick
Demystifying Distributed Computing...By Example (Second of Three Article Series)2002
Tech Trend Notes , Winter 2002
  Gregory Patrick
Secure Distributed Computing Revealed (Third of Three Article Series)2002
Tech Trend Notes , December 2002
  Gregory Patrick
Web Security Starter's Kit for Wired Data Networks1999
submitted to FAA , November 1999
  George Harrison, (co-authored with Mou-Liang Kung)
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