A National Leader

President Michael A. McRobbie

The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research has been designated a Center of Academic Excellence in both Information Assurance Research and Education by the National Security Agency and United States Department of Homeland Security.

"Threats against our cyberinfrastructure are real, serious, and growing. The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research has only one mission: to marshal the wide-ranging resources of Indiana University and to partner with industry, government, and academia to counter those threats--to anticipate, mitigate, and respond to them so that we are all more secure."

-Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie

ABOUT

The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research was established by Indiana University in 2003 to provide the nation with leadership in applied cybersecurity technology, education, and policy guidance. Fundamental to CACR’s mission is to properly balance public needs, homeland security concerns, and individual privacy rights. The center has been named an NSA and DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in both Information Assurance Education and Information Assurance Research.

CACR is distinctive in interweaving technical and policy expertise, and draws on Indiana University’s wide range of scholarly expertise in computer science, informatics, accounting and information systems, criminal justice, law, organizational behavior, public policy, and other disciplines, and the extensive practical experience in cybersecurity of its operational units.

The center’s leadership reflects this range of expertise:

The center’s director, Distinguished Professor Fred H. Cate, serves on the security and privacy advisory boards of Microsoft, Intel, DHS, and DARPA, is the privacy editor for the IEEE’s Security & Privacy and is one of the founding editors of the Oxford University Press journal, International Data Privacy Law.
CACR Deputy Director Von Welch has more than a decade of experience developing, deploying and providing cybersecurity for private and public sector HPC and distributed computing systems.
Associate Director William Barnett is senior manager for life sciences in the UITS Research Technologies office, and director of the Advanced IT Core in the IU School of Medicine.
Associate Director Mark Bruhn is Indiana University’s associate vice president for assurance and public safety.
Associate Director Scott Orr is an instructor in Network Security and System Administration at IUPUI.

CACR activities and accomplishments include:

Bringing together world-class speakers in cybersecurity, policy and privacy for the annual prestigious Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit, which the center organizes and hosts.
Providing policy advice to the White House 60-day cybersecurity review.
Producing, in collaboration with WFIU, Security Matters, a unique, ongoing cybersecurity educational video series for the general public.
Hosting the CACR Security Seminar Series, with talks from leading experts in cybersecurity.

CACR is affiliated with the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute and works closely with its partner organizations at Indiana University: CLEAR Health Information, the Maurer School of Law, the Kelley School of Business, the School of Informatics and Computing, REN-ISAC, the University Information Policy Office, and the University Information Security Office.